02429cam a2200433 i 4500 532107556 TxAuBib 891107s1988||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781556540349 $34.95 ($47.95 Can) 1556540345 $34.95 ($47.95 Can) 9780696110474 0696110474 (OCoLC)20609260 OHI eng OHI OCLCQ BAKER YDXCP EM5 OTP SMI TCA UBY CO3 OCLCO MZUMB OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO LEHIC TxAuBib rda Laycock, George. The mountain men / George Laycock ; drawings by Tom Beecham. Danbury, CT : Outdoor Life Books, 1988. ix, 308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-305) and index. Wild lands and furbearers -- Pursuit of the beaver: how the trapper caught beaver -- The buffalo hunters -- Mountain man's wildlife -- Eyes West -- To the mountains for beaver: the world of the mountain man -- For love of the wild places -- Birth of the rendezvous -- King of the mountain men -- The legend of Broken Hand: the mountain man's guns -- Old Bill, master trapper -- Trail blazer -- A grizzly prolem -- Some called him Thunderbolt -- From apprentice to pathfinder -- The happy mountain man: leatherwork -- To the end of the West: fire and shelter -- The marryin' kind -- Journal of a trapper: trappers who fished -- The bones of Old Black Harris -- Trappers in the Southwest: the mountain man's cache -- The old trapper and the kid: the mountain man's boats. Cont.): Long shadows. This book is about the fur trappers of the 1820s and 1830s who, in their search for beaver, became the first explorers of the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Fur trade West (U.S) History. Fur trade. Trapping West (U.S) History. Trapping. Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Frontier and pioneer life. Fur traders West (U.S) History. Fur traders. Trappers West (U.S) History. Trappers. West (U.S) History. United States, West. History.