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Lädt ... Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard (1839)von Zenas Leonard
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is the adventure of Zenas Leonard, a young man who leaves Pennsylvania to seek his fortune as a fur trapper in the early West. As is typical in these frontier quests, when things go wrong they go badly wrong. His family had given him up for dead for five years, before he finally managed to turn up one day. Despite being well supplied and starting off with a large company, the predations of Indians, weather, animals and human folly take their toll on the group. Leonard appears to be a decent and capable young man, but his attitude to the environment, shared by his traveling companions, will shock and surprise modern readers. Everything was plentiful and ripe for their taking with no thought of consequences or waste, as when they slew over a hundred mountain goats for sport. The idea that it could all end one day would have shocked them. It's a very revealing look at frontier life. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"Strong mental faculties and a vigorous constitution" were among the attributes of Zenas Leonard, according to the publisher of the 1839 edition of this book, which the Bison Books edition reproduces. In the spring of 1830, Leonard, a native of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, "ventured to embark in an expedition across the Rocky Mountains, in the capacity of clerk to the company. The last letter received by his parents, left him at the extreme white settlement [Independence, Missouri], where they were busily occupied in making preparations for the expedition to the mountains--from whence he promised to write at short intervals; but one misfortune after another happening to the company, he was deprived of all sources of communication--so that no tidings were received of him until he unexpectedly returned to the scenes of his childhood, to the house of his father, in the fall of 1835--after an absence of 5 years and 6 months!" Written "in response to popular demand," so to speak, Leonard's account of these years, based in large part on "a minute journal of every incident that occurred," is recognized as one of the fundamental sources on the exploration of the American West. A free trapper until the summer of 1833, when he entered the employ of Captain B. L. E. Bonneville, Leonard was part of the group sent under command of Captain Joseph Walker to explore the Great Salt Lake region--an expedition that resulted in Walker's finding the overland route to California. The Narrative ends in August 1835, with Leonard's return to Independence. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Enjoying this read about how the party takes off in different directions and when they meet up they discuss the things that happened to them.
Most fear Blackfoot Indians and the bears as they try to get to the west coast, through the Rocky Mountains.
Reason I wanted to read this one is because we are heading there and can't wait to see from the top of the range what they must've seen for themselves.
Traditions of all the different Indian groups are fascinating. Love hearing how they would dig a huge hole in a certain location and put the pelts in them and know exactly how to tell another where they were.
Love the bartering.
For safe keeping they'd find them when it was convenient and would give them a higher cost to trade them in. ( )