John Colter His Years in the Rockies

Name: John Colter His Years in the Rockies
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ISBN: 9780803272644

ISBN-10: 0803272642

ISBN-13: 9780803272644

Edition: 1993

Authors: Burton Harris, David Lavender

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John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported sights that inspired the name of Colter's Hell. It was a sulfurous place of hidden fires, smoking pits, and shooting water. And it was real. John Colter is known to history as probably the first white man to discover the region that now includes Yellowstone National Park. In a classic book, first published in 1952, Burton Harris weighs the facts and legends about a man who was dogged by misfortune and "robbed of the just rewards he had…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.682



Introduction to the Bison Book Edition


Foreword


Addenda



Stuffing Dudes



With Lewis and Clark



Winter on the Yellowst1



Fort Raymond



Colter's Route



Blackfeet



1810 - Three Forks



Retirement in Missouri


Notes


Bibliography


Index