Desert People and Mountain Men: Exploration of the Great Basin, 1824-1865

By the year 1820 virtually all the North American continent had been discovered and explored by the new civilization.There remained only one lacunae, one gap in the mapping of the continent. Between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada stretched an empty tract, an unknown land. Contents: Introduction; The People; The Explorers: (Jedediah Strong Smith: the First and the Greatest, Peter Skene Ogden: The Forgotten Explorer, Joseph R. Walker: The Fighting Explorer, John Charles Fremont: Pathfinder or Politician?); The Immigrants.