Tall, Tangled, and True Tales of the Mountain Men 1805-1850
Edición de la obra A rendezvous reader
| Autor | James H. Maguire, Wild, Peter, Donald A. Barclay |
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| Editorial | University of Utah Press |
| Fecha de publicación | July 1997 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 348 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780874805383 |
| ISBN-10 | 0874805384 |
| OCLC | 36726740 |
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M213r |
The accounts of the mountain men are spun from the experiences of a nation moving westward: a trapper returns from the dead; hunters feast on buffalo intestines served on a dirty blanket; a missionary woman is astounded by the violence and vulgarity of the trappers' rendezvous. These are just a few of the narratives, tall tales, and lies that make up A Rendezvous Reader. The writers represented in this book include dyed-in-the-wool trappers, adventuring European nobles, upward-gazing Eastern missionaries, and just plain hacks who never unsheathed a Green River knife or traveled farther west than the Ohio River. What these writers have in common is that all helped create a uniquely American icon - the mountain man.