It is not just a collective narrative of tales but a walk through the day to day intricacies and concerns of those free trappers, their encounters and reactions to a virgin land, an unknown people and the unpredictable and rapidly changing situations surrounding the taking of beaver and the often burdensome methods of getting them to market, here you will come to know the lives of Jedidiah Smith Joe Meek, Jim Bridger, Hugh Glass Sublette and Jim Beckworth, but you will not see them in the Hollywood sanitized way but as the real young men that made this history In the way it was encountered. You will learn of the English French and Spanish grasp on the land and native peoples the manipulation for profit, and the exploitation of all those who wanted a piece and were willing to take great financial and life and death risk for a chance at earning a better way of life, all the while opening new territory and charting a path from east to west. They were a breed of men that can not be duplicated because the time and place they encountered has ended, but what they left was a monument to man and what he can when forced to endure and adapt, overcome and sometimes even prevail, Read full review
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