Bitterroot, echoes of beauty and loss, Steven Faulkner
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Bitterroot, echoes of beauty and loss, Steven Faulkner
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eng
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non fiction
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Bitterroot
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939996284
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Steven Faulkner
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echoes of beauty and loss
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"Using the letters of the 19th-century explorer Pierre Jean De Smet, Steven Faulkner and his eighteen-year-old son, Alex, follow De Smet across the High Plains to the fur trappers' rendezvous on the Green River, then on to the Lewis and Clark Trail. Lewis and Clark take them over the Rockies (a part of their journey that almost killed the explorers) into the homeland of the Nez Perce whose fate (recorded by a young warrior named White Thunder) is strangely tied to these emissaries from the east. By road, foot, mountain bike, and canoe, Steven and Alex experience the vast landscape and try to capture an understanding of the Wild Northwest, an understanding supported by many chance encounters with modern residents ..."--Front flap of jacket
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