{"product_id":"after-lewis-and-clark-mountain-men-and-the-paths-to-the-pacific","title":"After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations. Colorful and eccentric, bold and adventurous, mountain men such as John Colter, George Drouillard, Hugh Glass, Andrew Henry, and Kit Carson found individual freedom and financial reward in pursuit of pelts. Their knowledge of the country and its inhabitants served the first mapmakers, the army, and the streams of emigrants moving West in ever-greater numbers. The mountain men laid the foundations for their own displacement, as they led the nation on a westward course that ultimately spread the American lands from sea to sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert M. Utley, former chief historian for the National Park Service and a founder of the Western Historical Association, is the author of fifteen books on the Western frontier, including \u003cem\u003eBilly the Kid: A Short and Violent Life\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCuster and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend\u003c\/em\u003e, both available in Bison Books editions. \u003cem\u003eAfter Lewis and Clark\u003c\/em\u003e was originally published as \u003cem\u003eA Life Wild and Perilous\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unp - Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33007099969636,"sku":"9780803295643","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/after-lewis-and-clark-mountain-men-and-the-paths-to-the-pacific","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}