In this classic of western Americana, George Frederick Ruxton,
who died in St. Louis in 1848 at the youthful age of twenty-seven,
brilliantly brings to life the whole heroic age of the Mountain
Men. The author, from his intimate acquaintance with the trappers
and traders of the American Far West, vividly recounts the story of
two of the most adventurous of these hardy pioneers - Killbuck and
La Bonte, whose daring, bravery, and hair-breadth escapes from
their numerous Indian and "Spaniard" enemies were legend among
their fellow-frontiersmen.
With Ruxton, we follow Killbuck and La Bonte and their mountain
companions - Old Bill Williams, "Black" Harris, William Sublette,
Joseph Walker, and others - across the prairies and forests, west
from picturesque old Bent's Fort, into the dangerous Arapaho
country near the headwaters of the Platte. We share with them the
culinary delights of their campfires - buffalo "boudins" and beaver
tails - and hear from their own lips, in the incomparable
mountaineer dialect, hair-raising stories of frontier life and
humorous tales of trading camp and frontier post.
"Life in the Far West," then, is adventure extraordinary - the
true chronicle of the rugged Mountain Men whose unflinching courage
and total disregard for personal safety or comfort opened the Far
West to the flood of settlers who were to follow. The breath-taking
water colors and sketches, which depict with great detail many of
the familiar scenes of the early West, were done by one of Ruxton's
contemporaries and fellow-explorers, Alfred Jacob Miller.
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