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Throne of Grace

A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West

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Throne of Grace

By: Tom Clavin, Bob Drury
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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"As soon as listeners hear Johnny Heller's easy Western drawl, they'll know they're in for a story about the Old West."—AudioFile

The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.

It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous tribes encountered by white explorers. Also in this volatile mix are the grizzled fur trappers and mountain men, waging war against the Native American tribes whose lands they traverse.

This is the setting of Throne of Grace, and the guide to this epic narrative is arguably America’s greatest yet most unsung pathfinder, Jedediah Smith. His explorations into the forested frontiers on both sides of the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the West Coast would become the stuff of legend. Thanks to painstaking research and riveting writing, the story of the making of modern America is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and memorable men and women, settlers and Indigenous, who witnessed it. But it's Smith who drives the narrative with his trailblazing path through the unexplored terrain of the American West.

Throne of Grace is a gripping yarn that drops the listener into the center of an underreported era and introduces one of the great explorers in American history.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

©2024 Tom Clavin and Bob Drury (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Americas State & Local United States Old West Wild West
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"A lively account of the remarkable life of one of the men who led the U.S. into the vast West."—Kirkus (starred review)

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Well read and well written, a thorough history of the early west. It leaves you wanting more.

Fantastic

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I throughy enjoyed the book. From beginning to the end. The stories were spellbinding. A hard book to put down.

A collection of true stories about the Western Fur Trade.

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The very best accounts of the mountain men who explored the west after Lewis & Clark. Don’t miss this book!

The amount of research employed to accurately write this book

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I liked the detail of the story! Evidence of deep research to tell the story accurately and well.

Amazing presentation of early U.S. exploration!

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Throne of Grace
A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure and the Bloody Conquest of the American West

By Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

Very interesting! The narrative recounts the life and times of mountain man Jedediah Smith and his contemporaries. The authors describe in detail the various encounters these trappers and adventurers were involved in. More than that, they explain very well how their exploits affected the development and future of the west.

I would definitely recommend.

Well written, well voiced & fascinating

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The authors' research and writing was superb. However, one redundant irritant prompted me to mark the book finished 1/3 the way through. The narrator referred to an Indian tribe phonetically as the "Ara-karas" hundreds if not thousands of times. I suspect he meant the Arikara People. Ah-rik-ah-rah. It sounded almost like an Artificial Intelligence error.

Great story and research; quit early on

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Loved the factual story of mountain men and their adventures. The amount of greed by the white men shows how far we have not come

Jedidiah Smith

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It's hard to overlook the constant mispronunciation of Arikira. It's not just once or twice, it's dozens of times. It's a real failure on everyone involved in the production.

It's hard to overlook...

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