A rendezvous reader: tall, tangled, and true tales of the mountain men, 1805-1850
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Salt Lake City University of Utah Press ©1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-337) and index
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 few of the narratives, tall tales, and lies that make up A Rendezvous Reader. The writers represented in this book include dyed-in-the-wool trappers, adventuring European nobles, upward-gazing Eastern missionaries, and just plain hacks who never unsheathed a Green River knife or traveled farther west than the Ohio River. What these writers have in common is that all helped create a uniquely American icon - the mountain man
Tall tales, amazing scenes, and trickery of the fur trade -- Heading for the mountains -- Trappers and their trade -- Mountain women -- Famous trappers -- Rendezvous -- Critics of the fur trade -- Indians -- Animals -- Missionaries -- Fur trappers in fiction -- Farewell to the mountain-man life
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 348 pages, [16] pages of plates)
ISBN:0585159432
9780585159430

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