This Far-Off Wild Land: The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson

by Andrew Dawson, Lesley Wischmann, Andrew Erskine Dawson

In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twenty-four after being dismissed from his second job in two years. His poignant sense of isolation is evident throughout his letters home between 1844 and 1861. In This Far-Off Wild Land, Lesley Wischmann and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870624199
• ISBN13: 9780870624193
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"