books on mountain men

[napolean]

Hi Rawhide,
Here are a few more.
Bent's Fort by David Lavender
Jim Bridger By Stanley Vestal
Jedediah Smith by Dale L. Morgan
A really good novel;
The Untamed Breed by Gordon D Shirreffs
Jon D

 

[T.C.Albert]

Stanley Vestel..."The Mountain Men"
its an oldie but a goodie...
TCA

 

[Tumblernotch]

I've ben looking around for some good books on mountain men or the fare trade aera. any good ones? or ideas? I shoot roundys and love it. just want more info into the mountain men on how they lived worked you get the idea any help please. rawhide.

Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell and Thirty-one Years on the Plains and In the Mountains by William Brannon. The last is an autobiography of a man who was raised from a young teen to a full blown mountain man by Kit Carson.

 

[GANGGREEN]

I just ordered an "e-copy" of Journal of a Trapper by Lem A. York Osborn Russell free from Barnes and Noble for my wife's Nook reader. I also just ordered Thirty One Years on the Plains after seeing this suggestion here.

There isn't a ton of muzzleloading stuff or even mountain man stuff for the Nook but there is a fair amount of historical stuff from library's that can be downloaded for free.

 

[Tumblernotch]

I'm surprised you found 31 Years On the Plains. I had misspelled the author's name. It's William Drannon, not Brannon. Just noticed it when I was looking at it. I had picked up a First Edition several years ago. It's good reading, especially when he writes of his early years. You'll get a kick out of what he did to the mean mammy who raised him.

 

[GANGGREEN]

Yep, I saw that it was Drannon. I just went to the Barnes and Nobles website and typed in the name of the book and it popped up. I downloaded it for free, along with some other books on Daniel Boone and the early fur trade. Check it out, the cost of the Nook (e-book reader) is probably well worth it because you can download a bunch of free books on it.