A rendezvous reader : tall, tangled, and true tales of the mountain men, 1805-1850 /

The accounts of the mountain men are spun from the experiences of a nation moving westward: a trapper returns from the dead; hunters feast on buffalo intestines served on a dirty blanket; a missionary woman is astounded by the violence and vulgarity of the trappers' rendezvous. These are just a...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Maguire, James H., Wild, Peter, 1940-, Barclay, Donald A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
To 1899
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Sources.
Fur trade > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century > Sources.
Fur traders > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Trappers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Fur traders' writings, American.
Trappers' writings, American.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Fur trade.
Fur traders.
Trappers.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States Local History.
West (U.S.) > History > To 1848 > Sources.
West (U.S.) > History > 1848-1860 > Sources.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1848 > Sources.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 1848-1860 > Sources.
West United States.
Biographies.
History.
Sources.
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