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Paperback The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Book

ISBN: 0792237439

ISBN13: 9780792237433

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville

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*This book is Annotated (It contains a biography of the Author).* When Captain James Bonneville left for California in May of 1832 his motives were mixed. Officially, the French-born officer was on a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Fur Trade Classic

While some historians portray Bonneville as an arrogant, contemptuous, bumbling buffoon of the fur trade era, others also denounce the manner in which Irving attempts to place Bonneville on a pedestal. There are certainly subjects open to controversy, such as Irving's treatment (through Bonneville?) of Joseph Walker's "non-authorized" expedition to California, or the building of Fort Bonneville, known to the trappers as Fort Nonsense because of its location, etc. There are well documented accounts of Indian culture; how the trappers coexisted (and didn't) amongst the Native Americans; the never ending feuds between the American Fur Company, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and the Hudson's Bay Fur Company; the annual mountain rendezvous; the shortages of food; elements of nature; descriptions of geography, geology, etc.; and simply put, survival in the wilderness in the 1830's. This is a classic of the fur trade period, and Irving's writing style is very realistic and expressive of the lifesyles back then.
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