In the 1840s the English traveller George Ruxton rode north from Mexico into the Rocky Mountains and lived among the mountain men. Edited by Horace Kephart, his account covers hunting buffalo and elk, winter camps, trappers’ lore and talk, and the Plains peoples as he saw them.
Among the best firsthand pictures of the fur-trade West, by a traveller who died young in 1848. Download the free EPUB.