TABLE OF

CONTENTS

Chapter or Data

Chronology

Page

Map of Fur Country of West

Foreword

1808 - 1830

A

Acknowledgment

i

Prologue

iii

1

The Attack

Spring 1808

1

2

War In the Wind

Spring 1808

10

3

Ponder The Path

Spring 1808

19

4

Colter's Hell

Spring 1810

28

5

War Upon The Land

Summer 1812

36

6

Jackson's Thunder

February 1815

45

7

On To St. Charles

Summer - Fall 1817

53

8

Constable One Punch

Fall 1817 - Spring 1823

62

9

Around The Beaver Pond

Early 1823

71

10

Up The Missouri

February - March 1823

76

11

A Pair Of Fugitives

March 1823

85

12

Fort Atkinson

Spring 1823

93

13

Arikara Dawn

May - June 1823

100

14

Arikaras Revisited

June - August 1823

107

15

Fight for Life

August 1823

119

16

Mountain Surgery

August - September 1823

127

17

Bridger's Ocean

Winter 1823 - Fall 1824

135

18

South Pass And Back

Winter 1823 - Fall 1824

144

19

A Horse Thief By 40

Fall 1824

155

20

Henry's Fork Rendezvous

Fall 1824 - Fall 1825

163

21

Milton And Achilles

Spring - Fall 1826

175

22

Three Aces

July 1826

181

23

Beware The First Of March

Fall 1826 - March 1827

188

24

Under Arrest

Summer 1826 - Spring 1827

196

25

Pinckney's Savior

March - July 1827

200

26

Blackfeet At Bear Lake

July 1827

205

27

The Trappers' Fandango

Spring - Summer 1827

209

28

California Calabozo

Summer 1827 - Spring 1828

215

29

Peg-Leg Smith

Summer - Winter 1827

221

30

Safe In St. Louie

Summer 1827

225

31

The North Edge of Forever

Summer 1828 - Spring 1829

229

32

Blackfoot Country

Summer 1828

237

33

Brothers Again

Summer - Winter 1828

243

34

Time To Try Wagons

March 1829 - February 1830

248

35

Opening the Way West

February - October 1830

256

Epilogue

267

Bibliography [159 Volumes]

269

Index with Identifying Data

271

[Your] Notes [on This Book]

277

Book Order Form

279