Teton County Library

Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure, whose discovery of the Great Salt Lake led to Western expansion and settlement. He remains one of the most important scouts and guides in the history of the West.

There are a million ways to die in the Rockies--and a million predators, natural or otherwise. But even seasoned mountain dweller Preacher is shocked by the latest horror lurking in the hills. Trappers are being hunted down like animals and killed. Some were Preacher's friends, and now two others have gone missing. Preacher is determined to track them down, but nothing can prepare him for what's waiting at the end off the trail.

"It is 1812, six years after he [Barnaby Sky] deserted the Royal Navy, and Skye has a chance to return to England, clear his name, and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye, " as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of his life begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him." -- Jacket.

"Jeremiah Halstead knew it would be hard to uphold the law in a buckwild boomtown like Silver Cloud, Montana. He also knew it would be easy to make some dangerous enemies. But he never counted on a foe as flat-out evil as Ed Zimmerman. This cold, conniving cutthroat may be awaiting trial, but the outlaw bounty he placed on Halstead's head is still in effect. Warrants have been issued for Halstead's arrest -- and even his once-close friends are looking...

Franklin Pierce was president of the United States in 1855, the Mexican War had just ended, the horrors of the American Civil War had not yet begun. The last of the free spirits known as the Mountain Men were securing their place in the legends of the frontier. Among these fierce adventurers was a man who called himself Highpockets. Into the harsh wilderness Highpockets had come to escape the soot of the cities and the terrible memories of war; with...

"When big Dave Reagan, whom everyone thinks of as a half-wit, saves Gray Cloud's life, the two become attached. Because of the bounty on the big grey wolf's head, they escape to the wilderness where they must rely on each other to survive"--

When a rival tribe attacks his fellow trappers in a peaceful Indian village, taking woman and children as prisoners, Preacher teams up with old friend Lorenzo and half-breed Tail Dog to get the prisoners back-and get revenge.

It is 1831 and Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the British Royal Navy and now a seasoned trapper in the Rocky Mountains, accompanies his Crow wife, Mary Quill Woman-whom he calls "Victoria"-to her village on the Yellowstone River. Victoria-unhappy with her husband's drinking and his unwillingness to join her people's fight against their sworn enemies, the Blackfeeet-succumbs to the entreaties of Jim Beckwourth, the much-honored and wealthy mulatto war...

Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River -- the longest in North America -- all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile...

Susan Brind Morrow brings her singular sensibility as a classicist and linguist to this strikingly original reflection on the fine but resilient threads that bind humans to the natural world. Anchored in the emblematic experiences of a trapper and a beekeeper, the book explores the implications of their very different relationships to the natural world, while illuminating Morrow's own poignant experience of the lives and tragic deaths of these men...