Three Years In The Rocky Mountains

DAVID L BROWN

Publication: Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 1950, NP

First Separate Printing. Limited to only 100 copies. Stiff Printed Wrappers. 20pp. Illustrated. Reprinted from The Daily And Weekly Atlas, Cincinnati, September, 1845. David L. Brown was a trapper in the North American Fur Company. In this narrative he provides the only account of the Great Rendezvous of 1837 to have been published more or less contemporaneously. Seeking adventure, David Brown joined Sir William Drummond Stewart, 7th Baronet, a Scottish adventurer and British military officer near Leavenworth Kansas in 1836, where they arranged to accompany a pack train to the rendezvous of mountain men at the Horse Creek Rendezvous in the Green River Valley of Wyoming. Here Brown met the famous mountain men Jim Bridger, Bill Williams, and Kit Carson. Describes the events during his sojourn. An interesting and important account. A fine copy.