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Russell: Journal of a Trapper - A Hunter's Rambles Among the Wild Regions of the Rocky Mountains, 18

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Russell: Journal of a Trapper - A Hunter's Rambles Among the Wild Regions of the Rocky Mountains, 18
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Russell, Osborne & Aubrey L. Haines [editor]. JOURNAL OF A TRAPPER - A HUNTER'S RAMBLES AMONG THE WILD REGIONS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, 1834 - 1843. MJF Books, New York. 1997. 12mo. xviii, (4), 191, (15) pages. original black cloth over russet boards, lettered in silver, jacket. Notes. Bibliography. Maps. B&w photos. English text. The David Baker Library. Fine. Born in a little Maine village in 1814, Osborne Russell ran away to sea at the age of sixteen, but he soon gave up seafaring to serve with a trading and trapping company in Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1834 he signed up for Nathaniel Wyeth's expedition to the Rocky Mountains and the mouth of the Columbia. Subsequently he joined Jim Bridger's brigade of old Rocky Mountain Fur Company men, continuing with them after a merger that left the American Fur Company in control of the trade. When the fur trade declined, he became a free trapper operating out of Fort Hall, staying in the mountains until the great Westward migration began. Osborne Russell's journal covering the years 1834 to 1843 is, in the words of editor Aubrey L.Haines, 'perhaps the best account of the fur trapper in the Rocky Mountains when the trade there was at its peak. It is a factual, unembellished narrative written by one who was not only a trapper but also a keen observer and an able writer'. Edited from the original manuscript. Lot weight: 0 lbs 15oz. Subject(s): American Western Biographical History.