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If you seek vicarious adventure, these pages await the armchair explorer. --Providence Journal In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the twenty-eight-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier. But when the journey was over, Colter stayed behind. He spent two more years trekking alone through dangerous and unfamiliar territory, charting some of the West's most treasured landmarks. Historian David W. Marshall crafts this captivating history from Colter's primary sources, and has retraced Colter's steps--experiencing firsthand how he survived in the wilderness.

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David W. Marshall, PhD, is a historian and professor emeritus at Texas Tech University, with thirty-eight years of experience teaching, researching, and publishing. He is the author of several works, including Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West. Jonathan Yen is a commercial voice-over artist and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. He was inspired by the Golden Age of Radio, and while the gold was gone by the time he got there, he has carried that inspiration through to commercial work, voice acting, and stage productions. From vintage Howard Fast science fiction to naturalist Paul Rosolie's true adventures in the Amazon, he loves to tell a good story.

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