ASIN: B01NAUBJDT
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 67
*Includes pictures*Includes Bridger's quotes about his expeditions*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsExploration of the early American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark’s transcontinental trek at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, was not accomplished by standing armies, the era’s new steam train technology, or by way of land grabs. These came later, but not until pathways known only to a few of the land’s indigenous people were discovered, carved out, and charted in an area stretching from the eastern Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and the present-day borders of Mexico and Canada. Even the great survey parties, such as Colonel William Powell’s exploration of the Colorado River, came decades later. The first views of Western America’s enormity by white Americans were seen by individuals of an entirely different ...
