Word: trappers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old New Yorker named Jedediah Strong Smith, an ex-clerk on a Great Lakes freighter who had come to town in time to spot Ashley's ad. Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests to Trapper Smith and two other lieutenants, they lost no time in organizing an 18-man party and plunging into the unexplored land south of the Great Salt Lake in a search for new trapping grounds. Although Mexican-held California was one of their objectives, they "literally went, out into a new country not knowing...
...mountain man, unlike the prospector, cattleman, or frontier settler, left no successor . . . But in his few allotted years the trapper set his impress forever upon the map of North America and the fate of the United States." On his first hand retracing of the cold trails of long-dead trappers, Author Cleland packs along...