My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting - Softcover

Hamilton, William Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1695768930 ISBN 13: 9781695768932

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

The mountaineers as a class were unique.

They were pushing, adventurous, and fearless men, who thought nothing of laying down their lives in the service of a friend, or often, it might be, only as a matter of humanity.

Equipped with nothing but their skill and endurance, a few ponies, a gun or two, and provisions enough to last them for the day, they set out to make their way through a vast wilderness that held all the terrors of the unknown.

William T. Hamilton was a classic example of this type of man.

He spent his whole life, from the time he was twenty through to his last years, on the plains, and was an authority on Indian life and customs.

My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting is the classic memoir from a frontiersman that gives valuable insight into life in the far west among outlaws, Native Americans, hunters and trappers.

“In the death of "Uncle Billy" Hamilton the United States loses its greatest Indian fighter and most skillful Indian sign talker and sign reader that this country ever produced.” Butte Daily Post

William Thomas Hamilton, also known as Wildcat Bill, was an English-born American frontiersman and author. His book, My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting was first published in 1905 and he passed away in 1908.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1695768930
• ISBN 13: 9781695768932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 121