Title: Broken-Hand Fitzpatrick, greatest of mountain men
Description: A biography of an Irish immigrant who left a clerking job in New York City to join a Missouri River expedition and, as a trapper and trailblazer discovered the South Pass through the Rockies, befriended the Arapahoes, and helped settle the West.
Subjects: Trappers, Juvenile literature, Explorers, Biography, Frontier and pioneer life
Places: West (U.S.)
People: Thomas Fitzpatrick (1799-1854)