Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013
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Previously published: Boise, Id.: Syms-York Co., Inc., 1921.
Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CIN1620874059G
- Titel
- Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843
- Autor
- Osborne Russell
- Verlag
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2013
- Zustand
- Good
- Einband
- Paperback
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 1620874059
- ISBN-13
- 9781620874059
Written in an intensely personal style that lacks punctuation at times, The Journal of a Trapper abounds with details about hunting and trapping in the Rocky Mountains, including descriptions of the animals he encountered. He travelled along the Yellowstone, Snake, and Sweetwater rivers (among others), through the Rockies and Tetons. His book is so accurate that recent readers have retraced his steps using it.
Russell’s journal reflects the complex character of many of the independent men of that era: adventurous, tough, and resourceful. He was a politician in Oregon when he decided to write about his earlier life as a trapper in the Rockies, and he retained the authentic “voice of the West.” Read this book for its exact and colorful descriptions, and for a rollicking good time.
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Journal of a Trapper
Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843
By Osborne RussellSkyhorse Publishing
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Contents
Preface,
Publisher's Note,
Introduction,
CHAPTER I. Expedition Left Independence, Mo., April 28, 1834, Headed by Nathaniel J. Wyeth,
CHAPTER II. Meeting with Captain B.S. Bonneville and Party — Establishment of the Trading Post at Fort Hall,
CHAPTER III. Snake Valley, a Winter Resort for Trappers — Hunting Party Suffers from Hunger — One Member Lost,
CHAPTER IV. Description of a "Fall Hunt" — Abram Patterson Drowned — Attacked by Indians, One Man Wounded,
CHAPTER V. "Jackson's Hole" — A Dismal Fourth of July Experience Which Is Terminated Without Serious Mishap — Lost,
CHAPTER VI. In the Yellowstone Country — A Garden of Eden Inhabited by Small Party of Snake Indians,
CHAPTER VII. Encounter with the Blackfeet Indians — Join Bridger's Party for Protection and Assistance,
CHAPTER VIII. Dispatched for Horses — Perfidy of Leader Suspected — Two Days Without Water — Finally Reaches Fort Hall,
CHAPTER IX. Enlistment Expires and the Author Joins Bridger's Company as a Trapper—Bull Meat Straight,
CHAPTER X. Rendezvous at Green River — Meeting Revs. Whitman and Spaulding and Their Wives on Their Way to Oregon,
CHAPTER XI. Interesting Description of What is Now Known as Yellow-stone National Park,
CHAPTER XII. Laughable and Serious Engagements with Bands of Blackfeet Indians — "Howell's Encampment".,
CHAPTER XIII. Brilliant Display of "Northern Lights" Probably Averts Annihilation of the Camp by Indians,
CHAPTER XIV. Another Rendezvous at Green River — Making "Good Indians" — Arrival of Wagon Train and Supplies,
CHAPTER XV. Back Again to the Hunting Grounds — Solitary Reflections on a Peak of the Rockies,
CHAPTER XVI. Thieving Indians Steal Most of the Horses — A "Whistling" Elk Scares the Tenderfoot Camptender,
CHAPTER XVII. Main Party Fails to Keep Appointment at "Howell's Encampment" — Stampeded Buffalo,
CHAPTER XVIII. Threatened and Robbed by the Crow Indians, the Hunters Proceed Afoot to Fort William, Enduring Great Hardship,
CHAPTER XIX. Fort William — A Cool Reception — Sioux Sign Language — Three Miles of Deer in One Band,
CHAPTER XX. Capt. Fontanell Arrives With Property Stolen the Month Previous — Leave for Powder River with Supplies,
CHAPTER XXI. Spring Hunt — A Trapper's Equipment — Canadian Trapper Has Encounter with Grizzly Bear Without Serious Injury,
CHAPTER XXII. Battle with the Blackfeet in Which the Trappers Were the Aggressors and Victors,
CHAPTER XXIII. Routine Experiences Followed by the Regular July (1838) Rendezvous on Green River — Fall Hunt,
CHAPTER XXIV. Returned to Fort Hall and Remained in That Vicinity Till January, 1839 — Spring Hunt,
CHAPTER XXV. Another Viewpoint of What Is Now Known as the Yellowstone National Park,
CHAPTER XXVI. Wounded by Arrows of Blackfeet — Hair-Raising Experience — Hospitable Reception at Fort Hall,
CHAPTER XXVII. Old Partners "Split Blankets" — Supply Train Reaches Fort Hall June 14, 1840,
CHAPTER XXVIII. A Winter with the Indians Near Great Salt Lake — Christmas Dinner a l'Indian,
CHAPTER XXIX. Solitary Hunting Bouts in the Early Spring of 1841, Near the Great Salt Lake,
CHAPTER XXX. A Visit to the Eutaw Indian Village — Cordial Treatment at Their Hands,
CHAPTER XXXI. Back to Fort Hall — Escorted Missionary to Green River and Back — Old Partners Reunite,
CHAPTER XXXII. Closing Incidents of an Interesting Experience — The Author Leaves the Mountains for Oregon,
The Hunter's Farewell,
APPENDIX,
CHAPTER 1
Expedition Left Independence, Missouri, April 28, 1834, Headed by Nathaniel J. Wyeth
At the town of Independence, Mo., on the 4th of April, 1834, I joined an expedition fitted out for the Rocky Mountains and mouth of the Columbia River, by a company formed in Boston under the name and style of the Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company. The same firm had fitted out a brig of two hundred tons burden, freighted with the necessary assortment of merchandise for the salmon and fur trade, with orders to sail to the mouth of the Columbia River, whilst the land party, under the direction of Mr. Nathaniel J. Wyeth, should proceed across the Rocky Mountains and unite with the brig's company in establishing a post on the Columbia near the Pacific.
Our party consisted of forty men engaged in the service, accompanied by Messrs. Nutall and Townsend, botanists and ornithologists, with two attendants; likewise Revs. Jason and Daniel Lee, Methodist missionaries, with four attendants, on their way to establish a mission in Oregon, which brought our numbers (including six independent trappers) to fifty-eight men. From the 23rd to the 27th of April we were engaged in arranging our packs and moving to a place about four miles from Independence. On the morning of the 28th we were all equipped and mounted hunter-like. About forty men leading two loaded horses each were marched out in double file with joyous hearts, enlivened by anticipated prospects, led by Mr. Wyeth, a persevering adventurer and lover of enterprise, whilst the remainder of the party, with twenty head of extra horses and as many cattle to supply emergencies, brought up the rear under the direction of Captain Joseph Thing, an eminent navigator and fearless son of Neptune, who had been employed by the company in Boston to accompany the party and measure the route across the Rocky Mountains by astronomical observation.
We traveled slowly through the beautiful, verdant and widely extended prairie until about two o'clock PM and encamped at a small grove of timber near a spring. On the 29th we took up our march and traveled across a large and beautifully undulating prairie, intersected by small streams skirted with timber intermingled with shrubbery, until the 3d day of May, when we arrived at the Kaw or Kansas River, near the residence of the United States agent for those Indians.
The Kaw or Kansas Indians are the most filthy, indolent and degraded set of human beings I ever saw. They live in small, oval huts four or five feet high, formed of willow branches and covered with, deer, elk or buffalo skins.
On the 4th of May we crossed the river and on the 5th resumed our march into the interior, traveling over beautiful rolling prairies and encamping on small streams at night until the 10th, when we arrived at the River Platte. We followed up this river to the forks, then forded the south fork and traveled up the north until the 1st day of June, when we arrived at Laramie's Fork of the Platte, where is the first perceptible commencement of the Rocky Mountains. We crossed this fork and traveled up the main river until night and encamped. The next day we left the river and traveled across Black Hills nearly parallel with the general course of the Platte until the 9th of June, when we came to the river again and crossed it at a place called the Red Buttes (high mountains of red rock from which the river issues). The next day we left the river on our left and traveled a northwest direction, and stopped at night on a small spring branch, nearly destitute of wood or shrubbery....
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