JIM BRIDGER: American Frontiersman

by Sanford Tousey ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

In a familiar and popular series of beginning biographies for young fry, this is the life story of Jim Bridger. Don't try to compare it with Shannon Garst's Jim Bridger (P. 76) for style, atmosphere or scholarship, for it is aimed at a different market-next step up from the good comics. Tousey's pictures, and there are a lot, are colorful enough, multi-hued where his prose is drab. But he writes with a certain predictable enthusiasm of Bridger's exciting life, trail blazing, guiding, making contacts with the Indians, settling the West. Good yarning, but not inspiring in the telling. But his market is a loyal one. Substantial format- cloth, reenforced backbone, tough as a saddle rock. It will take a lot of handling.

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Publisher: Whitman

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1952

Categories: NONFICTION