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Broken Hand; the life of Thomas Fitzpatrick: mountain man, guide, and Indian agent, by LeRoy R. Hafen.

Title
Broken Hand; the life of Thomas Fitzpatrick: mountain man, guide, and Indian agent, by LeRoy R. Hafen.
Author
Hafen, LeRoy R. (LeRoy Reuben), 1893-1985
Publication
Denver, Colo., Old West Pub. Co. [1973]

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Description
xiii, 359 p. illus.; 25 cm.
Summary
During the 1830's Fitzpatrick had a number of dealings with the Flatheads in the course of his fur trading and trapping.
Subject
  • Fitzpatrick, Thomas, 1799-1854
  • To 1848
  • Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
  • West (U.S.) > History > To 1848
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Up the Missouri and the Arikana fight, 1823 -- Over South Pass and in Green River Valley, 1824 -- Ashley and the rendezvous, 1825-26 -- Smith, Jackson and Sublette, 1926-30 -- Head of Rocky Mountain Fur Company, 1830 -- Fitzpatrick's perilous ride, 1832 -- Passing of Rocky Mountain Fur Company, 1832-34 -- Last years as mountain man, 1835-40 -- Piloting the first emigrants, 1841-42 -- Guide and adjutant, 1843-44 -- With Kearny and Abert, 1845 -- THe Army of the West, 1846 -- Ambassador to the Plains tribes, 1847-48 -- Peace plans for the frontier, 1849-50 -- The Great Indian Council, 1851 -- The closing years, 1852-54.
ISBN
0912094176
LCCN
^^^73081181^//r85
OCLC
  • 980039
  • SCSB-10784146
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library