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Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, maps

ISBN 9781442262836 (e-book)

ISBN 9781442226005 (cloth)

ISBN 9781442262829

Print version: Anglin, Ron. Mystery of John Colter : the man who discovered Yellowstone. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014] xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9781442262829

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index

"Off he started with the speed of the wind": Colter’s Run -- "One of the survivors, of the name of Coulter": searching for Colter’s roots -- "In quest of the country of Kentucke": John Colter and the legacy of Daniel Boone -- "Colter came running along the shore": the encounter with the Lakota Sioux -- "Colter had just arrived with a letter from Capt. Clark": perilous rivers and mountains -- "Colter expressed a desire to join some trappers": the partnership with Dickson and Hancock -- "Unruly hands to manage": up the Missouri with Lisa -- "Gloomy terrors and hidden fires": the mystery of Colter’s route -- "In the midst of an unbounded wilderness": Washington Irving and the Legend of Colter’s Run -- "We all now became blind": west with Menard and Henry -- "He reluctantly took leave of us": surviving in civilization -- "As fine a body of hardy woodsmen as ever took the field": Colter’s final days.

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