Captain Benjamin Bonneville took leave from the army in 1832 and led a wagon train of trappers into the Rocky Mountains. Working from his journals, Irving describes the yearly rendezvous, rivalries among fur companies, the Crow and Blackfeet nations, mountain men like Joseph Walker, and the view from summits few white Americans had seen.
A classic narrative of the fur-trade West, published in 1837; its views of Native peoples belong to that decade. Download the free EPUB.