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John Colter – His Years in the Rockies
There could be no appropriate to John Colter than the fact that for a century his legend has descended verbally from one generation to another. Over a period of only seven years, Colter so impressed the men he trapped and battled Indians with him by his awesome solitary journeys and spectacular escapes, that his deeds had become legendary while he was still in the mountains.
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John Colter – His Years in the Rockies
John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-1808 took him into present day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported sights that inspired the name of Colter’s Hell. It was a sulfurous place of hidden fires, smoking pits, an shooting water. And it was real. John Colter is known to history as probably the first white man to discover the region that now includes Yellowstone National Park. In a classic book, first published in 1952, Burton Harris weighs the facts and legends about a man who was dogged by misfortune and “robbed of the just rewards he had earned.”
ISBN: 978-0-8032-7264-4
180 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
University of Nebraska Press, 1952