Broken Hand: The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick: Mountain Man, Guide, and Indian Agent,

by Le Roy Reuben Hafen

Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two emigrant wagon trains to Oregon, was official guide to Fremont on his longest expedition, and guided Colonel Phil Kearny and his Dragoons along the westward trails to impress the Indians with howitzers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912094176
• ISBN13: 9780912094175
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Old West Publishing Company
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.