Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843 - Softcover

Russell, Osborne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544071876 ISBN 13: 9781544071879

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of the mountains and experienced trapper.

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About the Author

Osborne Russell was born in a little Maine village in 1814. He ran away to sea at 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 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. A mountain man and politician who helped form the government of the state of Oregon, Russell died in 1892.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1544071876
• ISBN 13: 9781544071879
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124