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Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales

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By Andrew Glass
Publisher StarWalk Kids Media
Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales
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In 1804, Lewis and Clark set out to find the fabled Northwest Passage to the Pacific, mounting the first expedition across the uncharted territory of President Jeffersons Louisiana Purchase. Though they never found the nonexistent Northwest Passageor the lost tribes of Israel, rumored to be living in the Great American Desertthey did discover that the entire region west of the Mississippi was swarming with beaver. And so began the American fur trade, as the first tough trappers headed out to make their fortunes in beaver pelts. These pages are peopled by the legendary mountain men, those roughandready fortune hunters, trailblazers, and storytellers who proudly claimed to have invented the American tall tale. Here are the true stories of their lives, how they worked to trap beaver, the hardships they faced in the wilderness; and here, too, are many of the gaudiest lies ever told about a West that will never again be so remote or so exotic.

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7861 words7,861 words
48 pages48 pages
Lexile 1180LLexile 1180L
Grade 3 to 7Grade 3 to 7
Age 8-12Age 8-12
Published 2014Published 2014

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Hear it hydrophobia Hear it courtesy Hear it resold Hear it greenhorn Hear it passable Hear it orneriness Hear it uncivilized Hear it unfaithfulness Hear it rendezvous Hear it outjump Hear it tomahawk Hear it secretion Hear it deviltry Hear it marten Hear it outshoot Hear it gunplay Hear it outfight Hear it overshirt Hear it unfit Hear it noddle Hear it trackless Hear it gunsmith Hear it deliverance Hear it calamitous Hear it preposterous Hear it stockade Hear it morsel Hear it calamity Hear it overlong Hear it heed Hear it savagery Hear it precipice Hear it perfidy Hear it desolate Hear it coarse Hear it burdensome Hear it chasm Hear it feat Hear it feller Hear it appendicitis Hear it piteous Hear it outright Hear it betwixt Hear it vermilion Hear it hearsay Hear it piety Hear it fantastical Hear it cache Hear it vastness Hear it riverboat Hear it harrowing Hear it crimson Hear it foolhardy Hear it gentry Hear it dysentery Hear it sumptuous Hear it buckskin Hear it gaudy Hear it windswept Hear it outpost Hear it grizzled Hear it commonplace Hear it apparition Hear it mangled Hear it obsidian Hear it youthful Hear it headlong
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9780385325554

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