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Jim Bridger
by J. Cecil Alter

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In 1822 Jim Bridger saw a notice in the Missouri Republican that read “The subscriber wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, to be employed there." Based on the 1925 biography, a wealth of new facts and corrections are included. Soft bound, 358 pages, illustrations and maps.

The Table of Contents includes the following:

Preface
Chapter 1 Boyhood Memories
Chapter 2 Historical Detour
Chapter 3 Up the Missouri
Chapter 4 The Indian Country
Chapter 5 Blackfeet Defeat Trappers
Chapter 6 Arikaras Attack Ashley
Chapter 7 Army Aids Ashley
Chapter 8 Into the Wilderness
Chapter 9 A Famous Bear Story
Chapter 10 The Beaver Wonderland
Chapter 11 Hostile Weather
Chapter 12 Discovering Great Salt Lake
Chapter 13 Battle of Ogden Hole
Chapter 14 Ashley's First Rendezvous
Chapter 15 Bridger's Travels
Chapter 16 Indian Medicine Man
Chapter 17 "Smith, Jackson, and Sublette"
Chapter 18 Bear Lake Rendezvous, 1827
Chapter 19 Ogden Notices Americans
Chapter 20 Bear Lake Rendezvous, 1828
Chapter 21 First Wagons West
Chapter 22 Bridger Becomes Partner
Chapter 23 Battle of Pierre's Hole
Chapter 24 Vanderburgh's Death
Chapter 25 Trappers' Amours
Chapter 26 Green River Rendezvous, 1833
Chapter 27 Green River Rendezvous, 1834
Chapter 28 Green River Rendezvous, 1835
Chapter 29 Green River Rendezvous, 1836
Chapter 30 A Winter on Yellowstone River
Chapter 31 Green River Rendezvous, 1837
Chapter 32 The Smallpox Scare
Chapter 33 Bridger Breaks Bread
Chapter 34 Father De Smet Goes West
Chapter 35 Fraeb Is Killed
Chapter 36 Bridger Meets Fremont
Chapter 37 Fort Bridger Appears
Chapter 38 Emigrants at Fort Bridger
Chapter 39 The Mormon Pioneers
Chapter 40 The Forty-Niners
Chapter 41 Laramie Peace Council, 1851
Chapter 42 Fort Bridger Taken
Chapter 43 Bridger Guides Gore
Chapter 44 The Utah War
Chapter 45 Sale of Fort Bridger
Chapter 46 Guiding Captain Raynolds
Chapter 47 Raynolds Is Snowbound
Chapter 48 Guiding Colonel Collins
Chapter 49 Guide to Montana Mines
Chapter 50 Powder River Expedition, 1865
Chapter 51 Powder River Campaign, 1866
Chapter 52 Powder River's Flaming Finals
Chapter 53 Bridger's Declining Years
Bibliography
Index

ISBN: 0-8061-1509-2

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