Jim Bridger Mountain Man

Author : Stanley Vestal
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446547892

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Jim Bridger - Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal Pdf

This antiquarian volume contains a detailed and insightful biography of Jim Bridger, written by Stanley Vestal. Vestal is well-known for his books about America. In Jim Bridger he paints a bold and authentic picture of a doughty explorer and of the richness of the American nation when it was still young. Full of colourful anecdote and fascinating insights into the life of Jim Bridger, this text will appeal to those with an interest in this noteworthy explorer, and it would make for a wonderful addition to any personal collection. The chapters of this book include: 'Enterprising Young Man', 'Set Poles for the Mountains', 'Tall Tales', 'The Cheyennes’ Bloody Junket', 'Fort Phil Kearney', 'Red Cloud’s Defiance', 'The Cheyennes’ Warning', 'Shot in the Back', 'Arrow Butchered Out', 'Old Cabe to the Rescue', etcetera. We are republishing this volume now complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Author : Jerry Enzler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806169798

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Jim Bridger by Jerry Enzler Pdf

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman’s full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he “discovered” the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River’s Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger’s path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler’s book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the “King of the Mountain Men.” This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life.

Author : Laura Parker
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Jim Bridger by Laura Parker Pdf

Author : J. Cecil Alter
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806186412

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Jim Bridger by J. Cecil Alter Pdf

On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed “to enterprising young men” in the St. Louis area. “The subscriber,” it said “wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years. For particulars enquire of Major Andrew Henry… or of the subscriber near St. Louise.” The “subscriber” was General William H. Ashley, and among the “enterprising young men” who embarked with Major Henry less than a month later was eighteen-year-old James Bridger, former blacksmith’s apprentice. So began the Ashley-Henry fur empire and the long, colorful career of Jim Bridger. In the years that followed, Jim Bridger became a master mountain man, an expert trapper, and a guide without equal. He came to know the Rocky Mountain region and its inhabitants as a farmer knows his fields and flocks. Indeed, J. Cecil Alter tells us, “he was among the first white men to use the Indian trail over South Pass; he was first to taste the waters of the Great Salt lake, first to report a two-ocean stream, foremost in describing the Yellowstone Park phenomena, and the only man to run the Big Horn River rapid on a raft; and he originally selected the Crow Creek-Sherman-Dale Creek route the Laramie Mountains and Bridger’s Pass over the Continental Divide, which were adopted by the Union pacific Railroad.” Such knowledge, together with extraordinary skill and uncanny luck, preserved Jim Bridger in a country where nearly half of his mountain companions met violent death. It also gave rise to a brood of impossible tales about Old Gabe and his adventures-tales which he himself may unwittingly have helped along with his droll humor. Based on Mr. Alter’s original biography of 1925 (a facsimile edition of which, with addenda, appeared in 1950) and a wealth of new facts gleaned from many years of careful research, Jim Bridger is the authentic story of the Old Scout’s life. Only those events in which Bridger took part are included; improbable and uncorroborated stories, however interesting, have been omitted.

Author : Shannon Garst
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447482994

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Jim Bridger - Greatest of the Mountain Men by Shannon Garst Pdf

This classic book is the biography of Jim Bridger, and would be an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in American history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Stanley Vestal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : OCLC:1035919262

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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal Pdf

Author : Elinor Wilson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1980-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806115556

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Jim Beckwourth by Elinor Wilson Pdf

Portrays the life and adventures of the freedman, frontiersman, and fur trader who became a Crow warrior

Author : Charles W. Maynard
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823962881

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Jim Bridger by Charles W. Maynard Pdf

Chronicles the life and adventures of Jim Bridger, a frontiersman and guide who played a key role in the Westward expansion.

Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0786450371

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Fort Bridger, Wyoming by Hunt Janin Pdf

For nearly fifty years, Fort Bridger played a role in all major events of the 19th century Rocky Mountain frontier and westering experience. Founded in 1842 by mountain man Jim Bridger, this southwestern Wyoming post was one of the most important outfitting points for travelers on the Oregon Trail, riders of the Pony Express, the Overland Stage, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Trappers, buffalo hunters, Forty-niners, soldiers and outlaws would pass through what is now the Fort Bridger State Historic Site. This post, or fort, is used as a basis for an illustrated account of the Rocky Mountain West. The book explores reasons why American Indian behavior varied between helpfulness and aggression toward mountain men and emigrants. Also detailed are weapons of the frontier, Fort Bridger’s role in the 1857 Mormon War, the 1867 Wind River Mountains gold rush, and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. Several appendices are presented, including a discussion of gender in the westering movement and a selected chronology of frontier history. Interesting and highly detailed excerpts are taken from such primary sources as a trapper’s journal and an 1850 account of buffalo butchering.

Author : Grace Raymond Hebard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523926171

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Jim Bridger "The Grand Old Man of the Rockies" by Grace Raymond Hebard Pdf

Jim Bridger may be most famous for being, as a youth, one of the two mountain men who abandoned famed trapper Hugh Glass after he had been mauled by a grizzly bear. It was Hugh's thoughts of revenge for this abandonment that fueled his recovery and eventual tracking down of the young Bridger. James Bridger, known as Jim Bridger (1804 - 1881), was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1850, as well as mediating between native tribes and encroaching whites. From inside the book: The western plains and mountains brought forth thousands of men noted for their valor, bravery, daring, sagacity, woodcraft, frontiersmanship and skill in guiding wagon trains and military expeditions across the trackless prairie and barren desert and through snow capped mountain fastnesses on the way to the land of gold beyond the setting sun, or in trailing and bringing to bay the savage hordes that sternly fought the advances of civilization; but among those dauntless spirits there was one who stood head and shoulders above all others as the greatest scout, trapper and guide, the most skilled frontiersman, and the quietest, most modest and unassuming prairie man in all the west. That person was James Bridger, Major Bridger, or, as he was more commonly and familiarly known, "old Jim Bridger," the "grand old man of the Rockies." No history of the American western frontier would be complete without a sketch of the life of this remarkable man.

Author : Barton H. Barbour
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806183220

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Jedediah Smith by Barton H. Barbour Pdf

Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic figure. Barbour tells how a youthful Smith was influenced by notable men who were his family’s neighbors, including a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. When he was twenty-three, hard times leavened with wanderlust set him on the road west. Barbour delves into Smith’s journals to a greater extent than previous scholars and teases out compelling insights into the trader’s itineraries and personality. Use of an important letter Smith wrote late in life deepens the author’s perspective on the legendary trapper. Through Smith’s own voice, this larger-than-life hero is shown to be a man concerned with business obligations and his comrades’ welfare, and even a person who yearned for his childhood. Barbour also takes a hard look at Smith’s views of American Indians, Mexicans in California, and Hudson’s Bay Company competitors and evaluates his dealings with these groups in the fur trade. Dozens of monuments commemorate Smith today. This readable book is another, giving modern readers new insight into the character and remarkable achievements of one of the West’s most complex characters.

Author : Ron Carlson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429971560

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At the Jim Bridger by Ron Carlson Pdf

"We lean closer and closer, eager to catch every last word." said The New York Times Book Review. "Bigger, richer, funnier, and more complex than any description of them can convey," said the San Francisco Chronicle. "Some of the funniest and saddest stories ever to cozy up together," said the Los Angeles Times. Welcome to the short stories of Ron Carlson, where strange beach towels turn up in your living room; where the ordinary son of a family of geniuses spins a rollicking tale of happiness and disappointment; where a teenaged magician seduces the prettiest girl in his high school and the world, with devastating consequences. Long regarded as one of our finest living short story writers, Ron Carlson triumphantly returns with At the Jim Bridger, nine stories that are epic in scope and confessional in tone; stories that enfold the reader in a world of love and mystery, and make us feel better than just about anything written on the page.

Author : Osborne Russell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359954353

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Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell Pdf

In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of the mountains and experienced trapper.

Author : LeRoy R. Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272081

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Broken Hand by LeRoy R. Hafen Pdf

Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two emigrant wagon trains to Oregon, was official guide to Fremont on his longest expedition, and guided Colonel Phil Kearny and his Dragoons along the westward trails to impress the Indians with howitzers and swords. Fitzpatrick negotiated the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 at the largest council of Plains Indians ever assembled. Among the most colorful of mountain men, Fitzpatrick was also party to many of the most important events in the opening of the West.

Author : Gene Caesar
Publisher : New York : Dutton
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UOM:39015046341932

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King of the Mountain Men by Gene Caesar Pdf