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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, Yellowstone, And On The Waters Of The Columbia, In The Rocky Mountains DAVID H COYNER

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, Yellowstone, And On The Waters Of The Columbia, In The Rocky Mountains

DAVID H COYNER

Other works by DAVID H COYNER

Publication: University Of New Mexico Press, 1970, Albuquerque

Reprint. Cloth. xxviii.-188pp. Map for this reprint edition. Edited and excellent Introduction by David J. Weber. Graff 897 says, "Howes and Wagner-Camp suggest doubt about the veracity of the author (the "lost trappers" were from the Lewis and Clark Expedition). Some statements in the work are demonstrably untrue, but there are sections which may be proven authentic." Coyner, a Presbyterian preacher sojourning in Missouri, claims to have compiled this narrative on behalf of a Virginia newspaper seeking frontier material, basing it on an old, musty, mutilated journal kept by Ezekial Williams, a Kentucky-born trapper. The main incidents concern the wanderings and adventures and his colleagues in the Rocky Mountains from 1809 to 1813, and the overland journey of two of them - the "Lost Trappers" - to California in 1809-1810. One of the early pictures of California. As New in fine dust jacket.

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