5 quotes found
“If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.”
“Yet it wasnt the Mississippi River that captured Jim Bridgers imagination : it was the Missouri. A mere six likes from his ferry the two great rivers joined as one, the wild waters of the frontier ...”
“The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens.”
“His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.”
“Yet it wasn’t the Mississippi River that captured Jim Bridger’s imagination : it was the Missouri. A mere six likes from his ferry the two great rivers joined as one, the wild waters of the frontie...”
