Adventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas Leonard

Here we remained several days and purchased and packed up a sufficiency of provision, as we then thought, for our subsistance through the wilderness to what is called the Buffaloe country a distance of about 200 miles. We continued our journey in a western direction, in the state of Missouri, on the south side of the Missouri river, through a country thinly inhabited by the whites and friendly Indians, until we arrived at Fort Osage the extreme point of the white settlement. also horses and goods of various descriptions, to trade with the Indians for furs and Buffaloe robes. Each man was furnished with the necessary equipments for the expedition - such as traps, guns, &c. Gant and Blackwell, left St.Louis on the 24th of April, 1831. comprising a minute description of the incidents of the adventure, and a valuable history of this immense territory - not from maps and charts, but from personal observation. Louis in the Spring of 1831, on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, for the purpose of trapping for Furs, and trading with the Indians, by one of the company, Mr.

Of the adventures of a company of 70 men, who left St. He continued to trade along the river for the rest of his life.Click Here to download a PDF file of this Narrative 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 and Clarks expedition, and who may have been the explorer-slave York. They survived, in part, by trading with Native Americans.

In 1831 Leonard went with Gant and Blackwells company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition. Louis and working as a clerk for the fur company, Gannt and Blackwell.

As a young adult, he worked for his uncle in Pittsburgh before moving to St. He was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Zenas Leonard (1809 - 1857) was an American mountain man, explorer and trader.

Zenas Leonards narrative is comprised of a minute description of the incidents of the adventure, and a valuable history of this immense territory - not from maps and charts, but from personal observation. Louis in the Spring of 1831, on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, for the purpose of trapping for Furs, and trading with the Indians. Book Synopsis Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard is a journal describing the adventures of a company of 70 men, who left St.

Adventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas Leonard