My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting, W. T.  Hamilton
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My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

Author: W. T. Hamilton

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 5 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Published: 04/03/2018

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Synopsis

In 1842, following the doctors orders for a change of climate, William Thomas Hamilton found himself accompanying a party of trappers on a yearlong expedition. Heading into the wild, Hamilton would prove himself to be a fast learner, as adept with a firearm as with sign language: this early experience would be the making of him. As the nineteenth century progressed, along with many other trappers, Hamilton found himself drawn into the Indian Wars brought about by territorial expansion.Exploring, trapping, trading, and fighting, Hamilton shows how every aspect of a mountain mans life relied on his wits and knowledge in order survive the inhospitable environments.First published in 1905, when the experiences of such pushing, adventurous, and fearless men were becoming a thing of the past, Hamiltons unassuming memoir relates an extraordinary life in a disappearing American West.

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