The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781442211131)

The travels and adventures of Lewis and Clark have become immortalized as legend in the American memory. The Perilous West tells the riveting stories of seven equally fascinating and noteworthy American adventurers - Ramsey Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion - and the unique legacies that their lionhearted spirits and monumental journeys left on America's landscape and history. These seven counted the Tetons, Hells Canyon, and South Pass among their discoveries, and forged the Oregon Trail: the path destined to link the Atlantic coast with the Pacific, spurring national expansion as it carried trappers, soldiers, pioneers, missionaries, and gold-seekers westward.

Author: Larry E. Morris
ISBN-10: 144221113X
ISBN-13: 9781442211131
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2014
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.02w x 0.84d