John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris Dogs Done in traditional Plains warrior

Done in traditional Plains warrior biographic style

This edition includes early drafts and notes by Hemingway

Army and the Plains Indians

The author brings to life the struggles and tales of those who lived and fought during this era

John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris Dogs Done in traditional Plains warriorJohn Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807 8 took him into present day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported sights that inspired the name of Colter's Hell. It was a sulfurous place of hidden fires, smoking pits, and shooting water. And it was real. John Colter is known to history as probably the first white