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    Mountain Men of Idaho
    Mountain Men of Idaho
    Mountain Men of Idaho
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    Mountain Men of Idaho

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    74 Short Stories of Idaho's Mountain Men

    They were hunters, trappers, bear fighters, Indian killers who lived off the land and survived annual rendezvous. The sun, the wind, the harsh winter climate tanned and dried and leathered their faces until those without beards (and there were a few) had to roll up their sleeves to bare white arms as proof of their Caucasian identity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarcy Williamson
    Release dateMar 30, 2010
    ISBN9780984313617
    Mountain Men of Idaho
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    Darcy Williamson

    I am an award-winning author of more than twenty-three books, a Rocky Mountain herbalist, and naturalist. As an independent business woman I own From The Forest, an herbal business that specialized in apprentice training as well as seminars and educational programs. My hobbies include hiking, camping, cross-country skiing, and gardening ~ enjoying the great outdoor opportunities provided by my central Idaho setting. Aside from my eBooks, I currently have three books published by Caxton Printers, Ltd., (Basque Cooking and Lore; River Tales of Idaho and The Rocky Mountain Wild Foods Cookbook) plus two recently published titles, Healing Plants of the Rocky Mountains and McCall's Historic Shore Lodge.

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      Mountain Men of Idaho - Darcy Williamson

      Mountain Men of Idaho

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      Darcy J. Williamson

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      Mountain Men of Idaho

      Copyright © 2010 by Darcy Williamson

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      Contents

      1. Mountain Man Jargon

      2. Andrew Henry

      3. Fort Henry

      4. Huge Glass Left for Dead

      5. Glass Rejoins Major Henry

      6. Glass Retrieves His Rifle

      7. John Colter’s Sculpture

      8. David Thompson ~ Kullyspell House

      9. Who was Josh Jones

      10. The Hunt Party Heads Down the Snake

      11. Hunt and Crooks Reunite

      12. The Cache at Cauldron Lynn

      13. Raiders of the Cache

      14. Cache Gets Hit Again

      15. McClellan’s Insubordination

      16. The Fate of John Reed’s Party

      17. Isaac P. Rose and the Grizzly

      18. Perpetual Motion Mackenzie

      19. William Kittson ~ A Novice in the Country

      20. Ignace Hatchioraquasha

      21. Ambush at Lemhi Pass

      22. Brave Old Bastony

      23. Johnson Gardner

      24. Jedediah Smith and the 105 Beaver Pelts

      25. Thomas Smith Heads West

      26. Thomas Smith’s New Name

      27. Peg Leg Smith ~ Horse Thief

      28. Peg-Leg’s Last Raid

      29. Peg-Leg ~ Entrepreneur

      30. Wives of Peg-Leg

      31. The Thawing of Milton Sublette

      32. Alexander Ross and Prince

      33. Alexander Ross Attends Indian Peace Congress

      34. A Trapper’s Legacy

      35. Winter Quarters on the Portneuf

      36. Saved by the Storm

      37. Jim Beckwith’s Run

      38. Jean Baptiste Charbonneau

      39. Kit Carson Joins The Company

      40. Frances Payette of Fort Boise

      41. Ogoroho

      42. The Pursuit

      43. Mark Head and the Loaned Rifles

      44. Camp Keepers

      45. Blackfeet and Buffalo Steak

      46. Tom Fitzpatrick ~ Late for the Rendezvous

      47. Agents Vanderburgh and Drips

      48. Nathaniel J. Wyeth

      49. Battle Near Pierre’s Hole

      50. Damaris and Plante Never Return

      51. Captain Bonneville ~ Unprofitable Year

      52. Montero’s Take of Woe

      53. John Work’s Brigade of 1832

      54. Christmas Feast with the Nez Perce ~ 1832

      55. Wyeth’s Desert Crossing

      56. Meek and Reese ~ On Guard

      57. Flag Raising at Fort Hall

      58. First Sermon Delivered on the Future State of Idaho

      59. Joseph Gale ~ Unpopular Leader

      60. I Told You So

      61. Building a Bullboat

      62. The Trials and Tribulations of Captain Thing

      63. Francis Ermatinger ~ Holding Down the Fort

      64. Col. William Craig ~ Idaho’s First White Settler

      65. Joe Meek ~ Floundering Across Idaho

      66. Bohemian John ~ Killed by a Bear

      67. Rocky Mountain Pete

      68. Beaver Dick

      69. Beaver Dick’s Tragic Loss

      70. The Buryin’ of a Mountain man

      71. Ordeal of the Carlin Hunting Party

      72. Death of George Colgate

      73. Cougar Dave

      74. Buckskin Billy

      1 Mountain Man Jargon

      ARTISANS ~ Members of larger trading posts who worked as blacksmiths, carpenters and boat builders.

      BOURGEOIS ~ The person in charge of a trading post and its field expeditions.

      BULL-BOAT ~ A boat made of a large animal skin (preferably buffalo), stretched over a frame of willow or cottonwood poles.

      CACHE ~ Property or goods of trappers temporarily hidden in a carefully concealed pit.

      CAMP KEEPER ~ The person who skinned beaver, cleaned, dressed and dried the pelts, took care of the stock and attended to other duties of the trapper’s camp. There was usually one camp keeper for every two trappers.

      CLERK ~ The first in line for promotion to the rank of bourgeois, and in the latter’s absence, preformed his duties.

      DUGOUT ~ A wooden canoe dug out from the trunk of a tree (usually cottonwood.)

      FREE TRAPPER ~ A trapper not bound by contract or agreement with any fur-trading company.

      MANGEURS DE LARD ~ Imported Canadians who were used as raw recruits in the fur trade. Fed principally on pork, they were called mangeurs de lard. This term came to be used in ridicule to denote greenhorns.

      PACKS ~ Bundles of furs securely wrapped for transport to market. Each pack usually contained eighty beaver pelts and weighed around 100 lbs.

      PEMMICAN ~ Buffalo meat which was sliced paper thin and dried, then pounded to a fine powder and mixed with melted buffalo cow fat. Often dried serviceberries were added. The mixture was packed into hide sacks and used as a staple when fresh meat was unavailable. Pemmican would retain its edible quality for a number of years.

      RENDEZVOUS ~ An annual meeting of trappers and Indians for the purpose of trafficking furs and purchasing equipment for the ensuing year.

      VOYAGEURS ~ French Creoles hired to navigate canoes or other crafts along streams and rivers. They were usually devout Catholics and almost always illiterate.

      2 Andrew Henry

      Andrew Henry was born in Pennsylvania around 1775. Having been born to a life of affluence and social prominence, he prospered and thrived. He had developed into a tall man with a swarthy dark complexion and a taste for the finer things in life. Andrew wore the latest fashions, dined in the finest homes and wooed the ladies by playing quixotic melodies on his violin. He also kept himself active in various organizations, often holding high positions within their structure; and being civic-minded, served as election judge and juryman. Then, at the age of thirty-three, he apparently tired of the easy life.

      In 1809, Andrew Henry joined Manuel Lisa, Jean Pierre Chouteau and seven others in organizing the Missouri Fur Company. Not content to operate behind the scenes from an office in St. Louis, Henry donned buckskins and headed to the Rocky Mountains. In the Rockies he contended with the hardships of the trade; grizzly bear attacks; fighting Blackfoot warriors; hunger; cold; thirst; exhaustion.

      Many of the trappers working for the Missouri Fur Company were from various Indian tribes. The Missouri Fur Company had relied on Indians to do the actual trapping and hunting that produced the furs. The furs were then brought to trading posts where, with increasing frequency, the Indian trappers were given liquor as an actual medium of exchange. The pattern was so firmly established that it was difficult to conduct business without a substantial supply of alcohol. In July of 1822, a law was enacted prohibiting the sale or trade of alcohol to Indians.

      Andrew Henry

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