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My Sixty Years on the Plains Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

Author(s)

William T. Hamilton

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9781632200563, 9781629143835

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing (Open Road)

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A nineteenth century mountaineer recounts his varied and adventuresome life on the American frontier in this classic Western memoir. In 1842, following the doctor’s orders for a change of climate, William Hamilton found himself accompanying a party of trappers on a year-long expedition. Heading into the wild, Hamilton would prove himself to be a fast learner, as adept with a firearm as with sign language. As the years continued, Hamilton was drawn into the Indian Wars brought about by territorial expansion. Hamilton vividly recounts a lifetime of exploring, trapping, trading, and fighting. He shows how every aspect of a mountain man’s life relied on his wits and knowledge in order survive the inhospitable environments. First published in 1905, Hamilton’s memoir relates an extraordinary life in a disappearing American West.

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My Sixty Years on the Plains Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

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William Thomas Hamilton

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9780486847054, 9780486840024

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Dover Publications

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Long before the American Revolution, fur trappers were traveling thousands of miles into the remote wilderness in their quest for beaver pelts, the frontier’s most valuable commodity. These hardened, unsettled men were at the forefront of the Western expansion, hunting amid the Central Rockies by the 1830s and occasionally wandering all the way to the shores of the Pacific. Their lives and accomplishments are vividly and authentically recaptured in this gritty autobiography of a longtime adventurer. William Thomas Hamilton (1822–1908) left St. Louis at the age of 20 to serve as an apprentice to an experienced trapper and hunter. Within a decade of his entry into the trade, the demand for pelts plummeted as hat fashions shifted from beaver to silk. Hamilton and his fellow trappers turned instead to leading hunting parties, guiding scientific expeditions, serving as army scouts, and protecting settlers and miners from Indian attacks. In this memoir, the frontiersman presents a fascinating account of his rough-and-tumble life in the Old West. Six full-page illustrations by the former cowboy and great Western artist Charles Russell enhance the tale.