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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, height x width: 229x152 mm, weight: 425 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Oct-2004
  • Izdevniecība: The Lyons Press
  • ISBN-10: 159228423X
  • ISBN-13: 9781592284238
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, height x width: 229x152 mm, weight: 425 g
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  • Izdevniecība: The Lyons Press
  • ISBN-10: 159228423X
  • ISBN-13: 9781592284238
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Long the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the western landscape-in art, books, film-is today shared by the figures called "Mountain Men." They were the trappers of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the years following Lewis and Clark's Expedition of 1804-1806. With their bold journeys peaking, during the period of 1830-1840, they were the first white men to enter the vast wilderness reaches of the Rockies in search of beaver "plews," as the skins were called. They feasted on the abundant buffalo, elk and other game, while living the ultimate free-spirited wilderness life. Often they paid the ultimate price for their ventures under the arrows, tomahawks, and knives of those native Americans whose lands they had entered.

Tales of the Mountain Men, presents in one book many of the most engaging and revealing portraits of mountain men ever written. Ranging from nonfiction classics like Bernard DeVoto's Across the Wide Missouri through fiction from such acclaimed novels as A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s The Big Sky, this collection is destined to be well appreciated by the huge and dedicated audience fascinated by mountain man lore and legend. These readers include many who today participate in reenactments of the mountain man "Rendezvous," with colorful costumes and competitions of traditional skills with authentic guns, knives, and tools.
No book exists today with such a diverse and engaging collection of mountain man literature. For an already-large and still-growing audience, Tales of the Mountain Men will be a valued extension of their interest in the mountain man as a compelling and uniquely American figure.
Introduction xi
Map xvi
Chapter
1. "A Much More Furious and Formidable Anamal": Lewis and Clark Encounter the Grizzly Bear		 1(13)
From The Journals ofLezvis and Clark, Edited by Bernard DeVoto
Chapter
2. "A Mountain Man, Wagh!"		 14(19)
From Life in the Far West, By George Frederick Ruxton, Edited by Leroy R. Hafen
Chapter
3. The Winter Lodge		 33(17)
From Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
Chapter
4. Brownskins and Beaver: Trappers on the Stream		 50(14)
From Carry the Wind, by Terry C. Johnston
Chapter
5. Wah-to-Yah: A Mountain Man Tall Tale Classic		 64(23)
From Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail, by Lewis H. Garrard
Chapter
6. Captured by the Blackfeet		 87(31)
From Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher
Chapter
7. Bighorns and Wind River Range		 118(14)
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville U.S.A. in the Rocky Mountains of the Far West, by Washington Irving
Chapter
8. "Buffler!"		 132(11)
From The Big Sky, by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
Chapter
9. Narrative of a Mountain Man		 143(15)
From Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Written by Himself
Chapter
10. The Legend of Broken Hand		 158(10)
From The Mountain Men, by George Laycock
Chapter
11. Across the Shining Mountains		 168(19)
From The Long Rifle, by Stewart Edward White
Chapter
12. Journal of a Trapper		 187(19)
From Journal Of a Trapper, by Osborne Russell, Edited by Aubrey L. Haines
Chapter
13. Trail Blazer: Captain Jedediah Strong Smith		 206(14)
From The Mountain Men, by George Laycock
Chapter
14. Lord Grizzly: The Hugh Glass Ordeal		 220(13)
From Lord Grizzly, by Frederick Manfred
Chapter
15. A Fur Trader's Narrative		 233 (11)
From Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur 1833-1872
Chapter
16. On the Oregon Trail		 244 (23)
From The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman
Chapter
17. Rendezvous and Farewell		 267 (28)
From The Big Sky, by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
Glossary of Mountain Man Words and Expressions 295(4)
Credits 299


Lamar Underwood has edited a number of anthologies for The Lyons Press, including The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told, Greatest Adventure Stories, Greatest War Stories, and Greatest Flying Stories.