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Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a renowned scholar-historian of the American West and one of the country's greatest men of letters.

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

De Voto weaves a compelling story of the Rocky mountain fur trade during the 1830s, vividly showing how this frontier enterprise shaped the American West.

The Weekly Standard - Bill Croke

...[T]he crowning chievement of DeVoto's device can be seen in his magisterial Across the Wide Missouri....[a] Pulitzer-Prize winner...