The edge rover : the life and times of mountain man Isaac Slover /
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| Author / Creator: | Green, Timothy E., author. |
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| Imprint: | Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2024] |
| Description: | xvi, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest Grover E. Murray studies in the American Southwest. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13497773 |
Table of Contents:
- The ordeals of the father : captivity, transition, recapture, torture, recovery (1755-1790)
- Down by the riverside : coming of age along the Ohio River (1790-1818)
- A merciless land : an interlude in the Arkansas Territory (1818-1821)
- Wayfaring stranger : with the Glenn-Fowler Expedition on the Great Plains (1821-1822)
- Adventures in Peltry : trapping the San Luis Valley and returning east (1822)
- Down in the valley : new home, new wife, new friends (1823-1824)
- Taos heydays : the fortunes of the fur trade (1824-1826)
- A quest forlorn : the disastrous Pattie Expedition (1827-1828)
- The beaver decline : searching for new habitats (1828-1837)
- Defender of the valley : settling in Alta California (1838-1846)
- A prisoner exchanged : battle of Chino and the siege of Los Angeles (1846)
- The accidental volunteer : adventures in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1847)
- Elusive peace : desert Indians, prospectors, Mormons (1847-1854)
- The last Cabib : death in the mountains (October 1854).
