ISBN10: 0803251661, ISBN13: 9780803251663, [publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr] Softcover bison book reprint edition. 241 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1965]

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ISBN10: 0803251661, ISBN13: 9780803251663, [publisher: John Wiley and Sons] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
[Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1965]

ISBN10: 0803251661, ISBN13: 9780803251663, [publisher: Bison Books] Softcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1965]

ISBN10: 0803251661, ISBN13: 9780803251663, [publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Nebraska] Softcover Paperback. 'Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this 'volume' down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky Mountains, please to read this and forgive the authors foibles and imperfections, considering as you pass along that he has been chiefly educated in Nature's School under that rigid tutor experience.' 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, ...
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ISBN10: 0803251661, ISBN13: 9780803251663, [publisher: Bison Books] Softcover
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1965]

Lincoln Nebraska 1965 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

Univ of Nebraska Pr 1965 Softcover New Bison book reprint edition. 241 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches.

ISBN10: 0803251661, ISBN13: 9780803251663, [publisher: University of Nebraska Press] Softcover 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. Num Pages: 241 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295. . 1965. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1965]

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[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1965]

BISON BOOKS 1965-10-01 Paperback New Size: 7x5x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

BISON BOOKS, Date: 1965-10-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! BISON BOOKS ISBN 0803251661 9780803251663 [US]