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Mountain men; George Frederick Ruxton's first hand accounts of fur trappers and Indians in the Rockies.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruxton, George Frederick, 1820-1848
Other Authors: Rounds, Glen, 1906-2002 (ed. and illus.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Holiday House [1966]
Subjects:
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Trapping.
Indians of North America > West (U.S.)
The West > Description and travel.
Frontier and pioneer life > the West.
Indians of North America > The West.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Descriptions et voyages.
Piégeage.
Peuples autochtones > États-Unis (Ouest)
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America
Trapping
Travel
West United States
Native Americans > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > Description.
Nonfiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction "Hos and beaver"
  • Winter perils
  • Blizzard in South Park
  • Indian attack
  • Killbuck and La Bonte
  • A Strange hunter
  • Into buffalo country
  • Pawnees and Sioux
  • Desert adventures
  • Mountain life
  • Old Bill Williams
  • For California, ho!
  • The Horse stealers
  • The Taos belles
  • Arapaho rescue.