{"product_id":"9780803257207-jim-bridger","title":"Jim Bridger","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMountain Man\u003cbr\u003eJim Bridger was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. At eighteen, he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat flotilla commanded by that stalwart Mike Fink. By 1824, when he was only twenty, he had discovered the Great Salt Lake. This biography provides a portrait of Bridger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn't write his name, but at eighteen he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat flotilla commanded by that stalwart Mike Fink. By 1824, when he was only twenty, he had discovered the Great Salt Lake. Later he was to open the Overland Route, which was the path of the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, and the Union Pacific. One of the foremost trappers in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, he was a legend in his own time as well as ours. He remains one of the most important scouts and guides in the history of the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e has called this biography \"probably the fairest portrait of Jim Bridger in existence.\" \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e has praise for a \"painstaking job of research among the usual Bridger sources and among some others which have been neglected. [The author] has adequately set the scene for his hero's adventures and has honestly appraised the great guide's historical stature.\"Other Bison Books by Stanley Vestal: \u003ci\u003eDodge City: Queen of Cowtowns, Joe Meek: The Merry MOuntain Man; The Missouri, The Old Santa Fe Trail, and\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Warpath: The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography of Chief White Bull\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56581631082870,"sku":"9780803257207","price":17.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38210569.jpg?v=1771442166","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780803257207-jim-bridger","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}