Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man (Volume 23) (The Oklahoma Western Biographies),Used

Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man (Volume 23) (The Oklahoma Western Biographies),Used

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Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first AngloAmerican 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 familys neighbors, including a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. When he was twentythree, hard times leavened with wanderlust set him on the road west. Barbour delves into Smiths journals to a greater extent than previous scholars and teases out compelling insights into the traders itineraries and personality. Use of an important letter Smith wrote late in life deepens the authors perspective on the legendary trapper. Through Smiths own voice, this largerthanlife 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 Smiths views of American Indians, Mexicans in California, and Hudsons 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 Wests most complex characters.

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