Journal of a Trapper - Hardcover

Russell, Osborne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803208979 ISBN 13: 9780803208971

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1964

Synopsis

In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of the mountains and experienced trapper.

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Review

"For a step back to life as it was before the Interstate, McDonalds, shopping malls, and rockets in space, Osborne Russell's Journal of a Trapper can carry the reader to the open clear sky of the Rocky Mountains and to the camp of the fur traders who were an important component of our collective history."―Molly Martin, Reviewer's Bookwatch (Molly Martin Reviewer's Bookwatch)

From the Back Cover

'Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky Mountains, please to read this and forgive the authors foibles and imperfections, considering as you pass along that he has been chiefly educated in Nature's School under that rigid tutor experience..'

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1964
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803208979
• ISBN 13: 9780803208971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Haines Aubrey L