The text is a rare combination of history observation and story telling and it is beautifully illustrated the breaking of the wilderness the once savage region west of the mississippi by explorer fighter trapper and fur trader is pictured to us as by a vitascope contents a race for life colter wins the missouri fur company. Breaking the wilderness the story of the conquest of the far west from the wanderings of cabeza de vaca to the first descent of the colorado by powell and the completion of the union pacific railway with particular account of the exploits of trappers and traders by dellenbaugh frederick s. Breaking the wilderness the story of the conquest of the far west by trappers and fur traders 1908 breaking the wilderness the story why the lord led the israelites through the wilderness wilderness when pharaoh let the people go god led them not by way of the land of the philistines although that was nearer for. Breaking the wilderness the story of the conquest of the far west from the wanderings of item preview remove circle share or embed this item breaking the wilderness the story of the conquest of the far west from the wanderings of by frederick samuel dellenbaugh. Author frederick dellenbaughs writing is serious and accurate historical accounting of the real players in the remarkable true story of how the great western wilderness was broken into and apart one portion at a time one era at a time from the earliest entrances across the barriers of great rivers deserts oceans mountains and deep remote canyons to the last great efforts by railroaders and white water canyon explorers like powell and others