Adventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas Leonard

She should assert her claim by taking possession of the whole territory as soon as possible - for we have good reason to suppose that the territory west of the mountain will some day be equally as important to a nation as that on the east. Holliday, his sale Parke-Bernet, 1954 bookplate of Estelle Doheny.Īquisition: Laird Park sale, Sotheby's New York, Nov. Provenance: ownership inscriptions of the Reams Family and an interesting contemporary note about the author at the conclusion of the preface bookplate of W.J. Cowan p 389 Farquhar Yosemite 1a Graff 2461 Holliday 653 Howes L264 ('dd') Wagner 75 Zamorano 80 50. Howes states that only about 200 copies were printed. Thus, the group that descended the divide between the Merced and Tuolumne rivers were the first white men to discover the Yosemite valley. They crossed the Sierra Nevada and spent the winter in Monterey.

Leonard, who enlisted with the Gant and Blackwell fur-trading party, subsequently joined Joseph Reddeford Walker's expedition to California in 1833. Some light spots and toning, brief closed tear to pp 37/38, boards with stains and rubbing.įIRST EDITION OF THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THE WALKER EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA. Original brown embossed cloth, rebacked with sheep, custom brown levant-backed clamshell case. Who Spent Five Years in Trapping for Furs, Trading with the Indians, &c., &c., of the Rocky Mountains. As it is in the public domain, there are numerous reprints.Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, a Native of Clairfield County, Pa. It includes many details of the different tribes with which his parties interacted. Moore of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, in 1839, after being serialized in the Clearfield Republican. The channel of the river where it passes through these mountains is. Leonard's journal was published in book form by D.W. (3) Zenas Leonard, Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard: Fur Trader (c. He continued to trade along the river for the rest of his life.

In 1835 Leonard returned to Independence, Missouri, with enough wealth in furs to establish a store and trading post at Fort Osage. Among the more helpful tribal members he reported encountering was a negro who claimed to have been on Lewis & Clark's expedition, and who may have been the explorer-slave York. They survived, in part, by trading with Native Americans. Living off the land (Leonard reported that 'The flesh of the Buffaloe is the wholesomest and most palatable of meat kind'), Leonard and his associates endured great privation while amassing a fortune in furs the horses died in the harsh winter and the party was at times near starvation. In 1831 he went with Gannt and Blackwell's company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition.

Adventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas Leonard