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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN-100803251661
ISBN-139780803251663
eBay Product ID (ePID)550531
Product Key Features
Book TitleJournal of a Trapper
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1965
TopicGeneral, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa), North America, United States / General
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, History
AuthorOsborne Russell
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN56-000052
Reviews""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, "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
Dewey Decimal917.8
Synopsis"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. . . ." Born in a little Maine village in 1814, Osborne Russell ran away to sea at the age of sixteen, but he soon gave up seafaring to serve with a trading and trapping company in Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1834 he signed up for Nathaniel Wyeth's expedition to the Rocky Mountains and the mouth of the Columbia. Subsequently he joined Jim Bridger's brigade of old Rocky Mountain Fur Company men, continuing with them after a merger that left the American Fur Company in control of the trade. When the fur trade declined, he became a free trapper operating out of Fort Hall, staying in the mountains until the great Westward migration began. Osborne Russell's journal covering the years 1834 to 1843 is, in the words of editor Aubrey L. Haines, "perhaps the best account of the fur trapper in the Rocky Mountains when the trade there was at its peak. It is a factual, unembellished narrative written by one who was not only a trapper but also a keen observer and an able writer." Edited from the original manuscript and originally printed in a limited edition of 750 copies, this classic piece of Western Americana is now available to the general public.
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- 06. Sep. 2021
The recounting of mountain yarns and tales repeated by a flat lander
Clearly when you reach the back of the book you realize that this was a commercial enterprise and not just the day to day experiences of a trapper, many of the exploits as it pertains to Indian fighting are highly and obviously embellished, in all the time he wintered with natives he never mentions taking a mountain wife or comfort squaw, in the beginning of the book he recounts a daring encounter with a grizzly, and at the end he is throwing rocks in their den to hunt them and return to camp as a great hunter. The last pages are his letters to his sister and he mentions marketing his novel, also his spelling and grammar are much improved and you realize that he was unusually fond of his sister. At best this is a collection of yarns assembled by a green horn.
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- 27. Feb. 2018
journal of a trapper
Good book. Enjoyed reading it and it reflects on a time back in our history when the nation was just beginning. ThanksBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 19. Feb. 2019
Journal of a Trapper great book
I bought this for my husband, and he loves it! He is not a big reader but couldn't put this book down. Highly recommend.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 13. Mai. 2020
It's very informative and intriguing and is an excellent insight into what the west was like a couple of decades before settlement occured.
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- 12. Mai. 2021
Loved
I’ve been a commercial long line trapper for 41 years and the memories were excellentBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 15. Feb. 2017
Journal of a trapper
Fast and accurateBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
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