Throne of grace: a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West

Prologue --

Part I: The hunter. "Enterprising young men" --

Astor's folly --

The horse and the gun --

Shipwreck --

Hivernants --

A bloodstained beach --

The Missouri legion --

Part II: The pass. Les mauvais terres --

Glass --

South Pass --

The survivor --

Dead men walking --

Flathead post --

"A sly, cunning Yankey" --

"Shetskedee" --

Guns along the Bear --

"Randavouze Creek" --

Part III: The odyssey. Eastern stirrings --

"A country of starvation" --

A Spanish inquisition --

Dreams of cooling cascades --

Dueling warpaths --

Bloody Oregon --

Fort Vancouver --

"A throne of grace" --

The last trailhead --

"Where his bones are bleaching" --

Epilogue.

Prologue

Part I: The hunter. "Enterprising young men" ; Astor's folly ; The horse and the gun ; Shipwreck ; Hivernants ; A bloodstained beach ; The Missouri legion

Part II: The pass. Les mauvais terres ; Glass ; South Pass ; The survivor ; Dead men walking ; Flathead post ; "A sly, cunning Yankey" ; "Shetskedee" ; Guns along the Bear ; "Randavouze Creek"

Part III: The odyssey. Eastern stirrings ; "A country of starvation" ; A Spanish inquisition ; Dreams of cooling cascades ; Dueling warpaths ; Bloody Oregon ; Fort Vancouver ; "A throne of grace" ; The last trailhead ; "Where his bones are bleaching"

Epilogue.