Broken Hand: The Life Story of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Chief of the Mountain Men

by LeRoy R. Hafen, W J. Ghent

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First edition

Denver, CO: Old West Publishing Co., 1931. First edition. 8vo. vii, 316 pp. Illustrated from photographs, old prints, and paintings, plates, portraits, double-page map. Fitzpatrick 1799-1854 , trapper, trailblazer, and head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, discovered South Pass, Wyoming with Jedediah Smith , led the first two emigrant trains to Oregon, guided John C. Fremont and Philip Kearney, and helped negotiate the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 cf.

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