Trappers and Traders of the far West [antikvár]

ForewordThe immense scene of this story of the Astorians' march is the vast area of America extending from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. For backbone and roof tree of this vast land, the Rocky Mountains rise to the great Continental Divide. Steeply its western slopes plunge to the Pacific. Eastward its watershed descends gently across the great plains to the Mississippi.The Astorians advanced into this unknown region with an iron resolve to push on to the farthest horizon beyond which lay their distant goal. Theyviii