LIBROS DEL AUTOR: osborne russell

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  • Journal of a Trapper
    Osborne Russell
    A Firsthand Chronicle of Frontier Survival and Wilderness AdventureJournal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell offers a rare and unfiltered look into the life of a 19th-century fur trapper navigating the wilds of the Rocky Mountains. Written between 1834 and 1843, this journal captures the day-to-day struggles, triumphs, and dangers faced by one of America’s true mountain men.Unlik...
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  • Journal of a Trapper
    Osborne Russell
    In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of t...
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    12,72 €

  • Journal Of A Trapper
    Osborne Russell
    An unvarnished ledger from the trapline: Journal Of A Trapper chronicles nine years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843. He lived among the peaks. Osborne Russell’s journal reads as a mountain man memoir in the most literal sense - practical, immediate and unsentimental. Its entries map rivers, passes, camps and the routines of trapping and hunting life while sketching the commer...
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  • Journal of a Trapper
    Osborne Russell
    In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of t...
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    12,82 €

  • Journal of a Trapper - Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains
    Osborne Russell
    'Journal of a Trapper' contains notes and extracts taken from Osborne Russell’s journal during his time as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains between 1834 and 1843. Osborne Russell (1814 - 1892) was a politician and mountain man who notably helped form the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. Contents include: 'Expedition Left Independence, Mo., April 28, 1834, Headed by Natha...
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    22,44 €

  • Journal of a Trapper
    Osborne Russell
    Osborne Russell’s thrilling lifetime of trapping and wilderness exploration makes for adventurous, eventful and highly readable autobiography.In the nineteenth century, the USA’s wilderness was enormous and largely uncharted by the white European settlers who had, until the nineteenth century, been largely confined to the easterly coasts of North America. The discovery of the R...
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    11,46 €

  • Journal of a Trapper
    Osborne Russell
    In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of t...
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    12,89 €

  • The Wilderness Westwards
    Nathaniel J. Wyeth / Nathaniel JWyeth / Osborne Russell
    Two accounts of early western explorationThis special Leonaur edition has been created for those readers interested in the lives of the American trappers and explorers of the early nineteenth century. Leonaur’s editors have brought together two related accounts for good value and to give most readers the most detailed and expansive insights into the subject. The first work is a...
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    22,17 €

  • Journal of a Trapper - Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains 1834-1843
    Osborne Russell
    This antiquarian volume contains a detailed account of a hunter’s rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky mountains, being a general description of the country, climate, rivers, lakes, mountains, and a view of the life led by a hunter in those regions. This fascinating account of life in the wilderness is both informative and entertaining, and will be of much value to those...
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    41,57 €

  • An English Paraphrase Of Horace’s Art Of Poetry
    Abby Osborne Russell
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,29 €