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Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard is a
remarkable true-life adventure story, a narrative of exploration,
survival, conflict, capture, torture, and an insider's account of
the daily life of an 1830's American fur trader and trapper in the
early American West.
Zenas Leonard was a wilderness explorer who journeyed across and
charted the perilous Rocky Mountains in the early 19th century,
keeping this diary as he went. Embarking on his spectacular journey
with a company of seventy like-minded fellows, Leonard chronicles
the many perils and trials the group encountered through their
lengthy voyage deep into unknown territory. The band of explorers
are beset with difficulties; the harsh, craggy lay of the land,
ferocious creatures, and the various Native American tribes put the
men through the greatest physical and mental tests. Many members of
the group were fur traders by profession; in scouting the vast
landscape of the Rockies, they hoped to discover new and prized
game to catch. However their ambitions are sorely tested by hunger
and thirst, while dangerous creatures such as the grizzly bear
strike terror in their hearts.
Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard is a
true-life adventure story, a narrative of exploration, survival,
conflict, capture, and torture; and an insider's account of the
daily life of an 1830's fur-trader and trapper in the early
American West.
Zenas Leonard was a wilderness explorer who journeyed across and
charted the perilous Rocky Mountains in the early 19th century,
keeping this diary as he went. Embarking on his spectacular journey
with a company of seventy like-minded fellows, Leonard chronicles
the many perils and trials the group encountered through their
lengthy voyage deep into unknown territory. The band of explorers
are beset with difficulties; the harsh, craggy lay of the land,
ferocious creatures, and the various Native American tribes put the
men through the greatest physical and mental tests. Many members of
the group were fur traders by profession; in scouting the vast
landscape of the Rockies, they hoped to discover new and prized
game to catch. However their ambitions are sorely tested by hunger
and thirst, while dangerous creatures such as the grizzly bear
strike terror in their hearts.
"Strong mental faculties and a vigorous constitution" were among
the attributes of Zenas Leonard, according to the publisher of the
1839 edition of this book, which the Bison Books edition
reproduces. In the spring of 1830, Leonard, a native of Clearfield,
Pennsylvania, "ventured to embark in an expedition across the Rocky
Mountains, in the capacity of clerk to the company. The last letter
received by his parents, left him at the extreme white settlement
Independence, Missouri, where they were busily occupied in making
preparations for the expedition to the mountains--from whence he
promised to write at short intervals; but one misfortune after
another happening to the company, he was deprived of all sources of
communication--so that no tidings were received of him until he
unexpectedly returned to the scenes of his childhood, to the house
of his father, in the fall of 1835--after an absence of 5 years and
6 months " Written "in response to popular demand," so to speak,
Leonard's account of these years, based in large part on "a minute
journal of every incident that occurred," is recognized as one of
the fundamental sources on the exploration of the American West. A
free trapper until the summer of 1833, when he entered the employ
of Captain B. L. E. Bonneville, Leonard was part of the group sent
under command of Captain Joseph Walker to explore the Great Salt
Lake region--an expedition that resulted in Walker's finding the
overland route to California. The Narrative ends in August 1835,
with Leonard's return to Independence.
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