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Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto

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4.0

At times, I felt I was part of the story. A humanized version of the rise and fall of the Rocky Mountian fur trade and the lives of those changed by the westward expansion of the United States. Based on first-hand accounts of the era, the subject was researched in detail and gives far accounts of whites and the Plains Indians alike. Perhaps a bit romanticized, but none the less a relevant expression of two ways of life inevitably lost.
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