Rendezvous Reader

by James H. Maguire, Peter Wild, Donald A. Barclay

Book Overview

The early plans for Mount Rushmore called for blasting heroic likenesses of mountain men--Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and John Colter---into the solid mountain granite of South Dakota. Readers of this colorful volume will see the heroics and the brutally rugged individualism that made these fur trappers candidates for legend and infamy. The accounts of the mountain men are spun from the experiences of a nation moving westward: a trapper returns from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874805392
• ISBN13: 9780874805390
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher