Throne of Grace: A Mountain man, an epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest og the American West
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2024. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 355 pp. with index. Illustrations in black and white and in color. An epic narrative of arguably America's greatest yet most unsung pathfinder, Jedediah Smith. The narrative is set in the early 19th century when land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretched west for thousands of miles. It raised questions of who inhabited this vast new Garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations were to be discovered? With the birth of Manifest Destiny, bloody battles with Indigenous peoples resulted. Smith explored the forested frontiers on both sides of the Rocky Mountains and all the wy to the West Coast. Fine / fine. Item #E36203
ISBN: 9781250285836
Price: $13.95