{"product_id":"jedediah-smith-and-the-opening-of-the-west-1","title":"Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West","description":"\u003ch1\u003eJedediah Smith and the Opening of the West\u003c\/h1\u003eDale L Morgan\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bison Books\u003cbr\u003eJune 1 1964\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780803251380\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0803251386\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is the book on one of the true great men of his era.\"--J. H. Jackson, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, \"a wilderness,\" he wrote, \"of two thousand miles diameter.\" During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, \"the mild and Christian young man\" blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390727258157,"sku":"WHS-c0b78023e37a4f8baec88a43373d14c7","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_9e731ca5-5852-4260-9015-573c94f64a97.jpg?v=1787346490","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/jedediah-smith-and-the-opening-of-the-west-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}