Throne of Grace

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

De: Tom Clavin, Bob Drury

Narrado por: Johnny Heller

"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

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A lively account of the remarkable life of one of the men who led the U.S. into the vast West."—Kirkus (starred review)

Fantastic

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

The amount of research employed to accurately write this book

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

A collection of true stories about the Western Fur Trade.

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

Amazing presentation of early U.S. exploration!

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

It's hard to overlook...

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.

Great story and research; quit early on

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.

Well written, well voiced & fascinating

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.

Jedidiah Smith

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