Young James Ohio Pattie and his father set out from Missouri in 1824 to trap beaver in the Mexican Southwest, fighting Apaches, starving in the deserts along the Gila and Colorado, and ending up in a California jail. This Early Western Travels volume, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, adds Willard’s account of the Santa Fe trade and Malte-Brun’s description of Mexico.
One of the rawest first-hand accounts of the mountain-man era, with the editor’s useful historical notes. Download the free EPUB.