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A rendezvous reader : tall, tangled, and true tales of the mountain men, 1805-1850
- Title
- A rendezvous reader : tall, tangled, and true tales of the mountain men, 1805-1850 / edited by James H. Maguire, Peter Wild, and Donald A. Barclay.
- Publication
- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F596 .R77 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- The accounts of the mountain men are spun from the experiences of a nation moving westward: a trapper returns from the dead; hunters feast on buffalo intestines served on a dirty blanket; a missionary woman is astounded by the violence and vulgarity of the trappers' rendezvous. These are just a few of the narratives, tall tales, and lies that make up A Rendezvous Reader.
- The writers represented in this book include dyed-in-the-wool trappers, adventuring European nobles, upward-gazing Eastern missionaries, and just plain hacks who never unsheathed a Green River knife or traveled farther west than the Ohio River. What these writers have in common is that all helped create a uniquely American icon--the mountain man.
- Subjects
- Fur trade
- Trappers
- Fur traders
- Frontier and pioneer life
- To 1899
- Sources
- History
- Biographies
- West United States
- West (U.S.) > History > 1848-1860 > Sources
- West (U.S.) > History > To 1848 > Sources
- Trappers' writings, American
- Fur traders' writings, American
- Trappers > West (U.S.) > Biography
- Fur traders > West (U.S.) > Biography
- Fur trade > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century > Sources
- Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Sources
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-337) and index.
- Contents
- Tall tales, amazing scenes, and trickery of the fur trade -- Heading for the mountains -- Trappers and their trade -- Mountain women -- Famous trappers -- Rendezvous -- Critics of the fur trade -- Indians -- Animals -- Missionaries -- Fur trappers in fiction -- Farewell to the mountain-man life.
- ISBN
- 0874805384
- 9780874805383
- 0874805392
- 9780874805390
- LCCN
- 97010969
- OCLC
- ocm36726740
- 36726740
- SCSB-2133035
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library