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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER ONE Introduction--Missouri Fur Company--Terms of Engagement With Them--Departure for the Trapping Grounds--Incidents on the Route--The Pork Meeting--Scenery--Cheek, a Western Pioneer --His Affair With the Irishman--A Hunting Excursion--The Rickarees--The Mandans--The Gros-Ventres--The Company's Fort--Cheek and Ried--Friends Between the French and Americans--Violation of Contract by Company--Departure for Upper Missouri--Wintering--Trip Across the Country--Famine and Cold--Scenery on the Yellow Stone--Manuel's Fort--Col. Menard and Manuel Liza--Indian Murders--A Snow Storm In the Mountains--Blindness--Arrival at the Forks of the Missouri--Preparations for Business. IHAVE often amused myself and friends, by relating stories of my adventures in the West, and am led to believe, by the, perhaps, too partial representations of those friends, that my life in the Prairies and Mountains for three years, is worthy of a record more enduring than their memories. I have passed a year and a half on the head waters of the Missouri and among the gorges of tl e Rocky Mountains as a hunter and a trapper, and t o years among the Spaniards and Camanches. I have suffered much from the inclemency of nature and of man, had many "hair breadth 'scapes" and acquired considerable information illustrative of Indian and Mexican character and customs. By a plain, unvarnished tale of Western life, of perils and of hardships, I hope to amuse the reader who delights in accounts of wild adventure, though found out of the 13 pages of a novel and possessing no attraction but their unadorned truthfulness. I am now on the shady side of sixty, with mind and memory unimpaired. If my reminiscences, as recorded in the following pages, serve to awaken my countrymen of the West and South-west, now...