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Informationen zum Autor Larry E. Morris is the author of The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers after the Expedition, a History Book Club selection favorably reviewed by such publications as The Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and The Missouri Historical Review. Morris is one of six authors whose work on Lewis and Clark is recommended by Encyclopedia Britannica. Choice named Fate an Outstanding Academic Title and said it "ranks among the best books in the crowded world of Lewis and Clark hagiography." In 2005, the Washington State Library selected thirty-three "essential core books about the expedition." That list included Fate, which, according to the WorldCat database, has been placed in more libraries than any of the other books except those by Ambrose, Bernard DeVoto, and Ken Burns. Morris is also the author of The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail (given a Starred Review by Library Journal) and co-author of Gloomy Terrors and Hidden Fires: John Colter and the Mystery of Yellowstone (called a "definitive biography" by Booklist), both published by Rowman & Littlefield. Klappentext From the first account of "Colter's Run," published in 1810, fascination with John Colter, one of America's most famous and yet least known frontiersmen and discoverer of Yellowstone Park, has never waned. Unlike other legends of the era like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Kit Carson, Colter has remained elusive because he left not a single letter, diary, or reminiscence. Gathering the available evidence and guiding readers through a labyrinth of hearsay, rumor, and myth, two Colter experts for the first time tell the whole story of Colter and his legend. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1 ¿Off He Started with the Speed of the Wind¿: Colter¿s Run2 ¿One of the Survivors, of the Name of Coulter¿: Searching for Colter¿s Roots3 ¿In Quest of the Country of Kentucke¿: John Colter and the Legacy of Daniel Boone4 ¿Colter Came Running Along the Shore¿: The Encounter with the Lakota Sioux5 Colter Had Just Arrived with a Letter from Capt. Clark.": Perilous Rivers and Mountains6 ¿Colter Expressed a Desire To Join Some Trappers¿: The Partnership with Dickson and Hancock 7 "Unruly Hands to Manage": Up the Missouri with LIsa8 "Lonely Wanderings": The Riddle of Colter's Route9 "In the Midst of an Unbounded Wilderness": Washington Irving and the Legend of Colter's Run 10 "We All Now Became Blind": West with Menard and Henry11 "He Reluctantly Took Leave of Us": Surviving in Civilization12 "As Fine a Body of Hardy Woodsmen as Ever Took the Field": Colter's Final DaysEpilogue Chronology Appendix A: Accounts of Colter's RunAppendix B: The Documentary History of John Colter, 1803-1846Appendix C: The Colter Stone and Other GraffitiNotes Sources Cited IndexAbout the Authors...
