Backbone of the World : A Personal Account of the American Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, 1822-1824

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• ISBN13: 9780983316435
• ISBN10: 0983316430
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-06-01
• Publisher: Christopher Matthews Pub

Summary

Backbone of the World is a coming-of-age story of the first two years of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade, 1822-1824. It is told in his own words by Temple Buck, an Ohio-born lad whose rollicking tale begins with growing up in the Ohio wilderness, how he is kidnapped aboard evil Mike Fink's keelboat, is rescued by a beautiful St. Louis madam, and enlists in Ashley and Henry's first expedition up the Missouri River to the beaver-rich Rockies and a wealth of adventure and undreamed-of new experiences.

Author Biography

Edward Louis Henry is a lifelong horseman and outdoorsman who has been a working cowhand, a Wild West performer, a WWII infantry sergeant, a US Foreign Service officer, and an executive speechwriter. He is the author of the Temple Buck Quartet and Poredevil’s Beaver Tales. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	p. 3
Author's Foreword	p. 7
Ohio	p. 13
The Ohio	p. 63
St. Louis	p. 113
The Missouri	p. 165
The Yellowstone	p. 249
The Musselshell	p. 301
Arikaras	p. 359
The Shining Mountains	p. 405
Snakes	p. 445
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