Jerry Enzler’s new biography of Jim Bridger, and new histories of Lewis and Clark, the grand masters of Western art, war on the central plains and Max McCoy’s latest Western. In my earliest days of reading American history, biography was a staple of my education. A bio of a teenage Bridger inspired my interest in mountain men and trailblazer history. Since then, I have had a great curiosity in the fur-trade era, but it has been many years since I enjoyed such an excellent profile of my fi


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