An edition of The lost trappers (1847)
The lost trappers
a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains
By David H. Coyner
Publish Date
1847
Publisher
J.A. & U.P. James
Language
eng
Pages
192
Description:
David Coyner was born in Virginia in 1807 and was not only an able preacher, and lecturer but was also a successful author and historian. During the four years from 1842 to 1847, which he spent on the frontier between New Mexico and high up on the Missouri river, he gathered material for a book many editions of which have been published and sold. A great many of the facts contained in this historical collection he got from men who had been with Lewis and Clark across the Rocky Mountains in 1805-6-7. This book on early western North American exploration is cited in numerous history books as a primary source of authority for this little documented period of history.
subjects: Biography, Description and travel, Frontier and pioneer life, Fur trade, History, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Sources, Trappers, Trappers' writings, American, Travel, West (U.S.), West (u.s.), description and travel, West (u.s.), history
People: Ezekiel Williams (ca. 1780-1844), Ezekiel Williams (ca. 1788-1844), Ezekiel Williams (fl. 1807-1827)
Places: California, Rocky Mountains, West (U.S.), West (U.S.).
Times: To 1848