The Last Wilderness: The saga of America's mountain men

by Noel B. Gerson

Accounts of the explorers, fur trappers, hunters and settlers who opened the West in the first half of the nineteenth century, including Stephen Long, Jim Bridger, John C. Frm̌ont, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Kit Carson.

Subjects
West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature.
West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature.

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, The Naked Maja, and 55 Days at Peking.

Aside from "Samuel Edwards", which would seem to have been his dedicated by-line for tie-in work, Gerson used the following nine pseudonyms in addition to his own name: Anne Marie Burgess; Michael Burgess; Nicholas Gorham; Paul Lewis; Leon Phillips; Donald Clayton Porter; Dana Fuller Ross; Philip Vail; and Carter A. Vaughan.