In 1822 Elijah Mounts, barely eighteen, shoulders his rifle and
walks from his uncle's Missouri farm to Saint Louis to seek his
fortune in the fur trade. Frank B. Linderman's 1922 novel is a
first-person account, based on a true story and his own trapping
experience, of a young man's coming of age among the trappers and
Indians in remote Montana, on the upper reaches of the wild
Missouri River. Befriended by Wash Lamkin, "Dad" to all who know
him, "Lige" learns to live on the trail, trap the beaver, hunt the
buffalo, speak the Cree language, and observe the customs of the
country and its people. Enamored of the freedom, wildness, and
beauty of the high plains and tied to the people at whose hands he
has experienced kindness, welcome, and acceptance, he must
ultimately decide whether he will return to civilization or choose
the life of a plainsman. Frank B. Linderman (1869-1938) was a
Montana miner, trapper, newspaperman, politician, and chronicler of
Indian life and culture. His many works include The Montana Stories
of Frank B. Linderman, Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's
Lodge-Fire, and Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War
Eagle's Lodge-Fire, all available in Bison Books editions. David J.
Wishart, a professor of geography at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, is the author of An Unspeakable Sadness: The
Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians and the editor of The
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, both available from the
University of Nebraska Press. Sarah Waller Hatfield is Linderman's
granddaughter.
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