Old Bill Williams, Mountain Man by Alpheous H. Favour
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This account of William Sherley Williams is perhaps the best account of the life of a mountain man ever written. In itinerant preacher, he appointed himself missionary to the Osages, who soon converted him to their ways. A master trapper, he was a guide of the Sibley survey of the Santa Fe trail in 1825, and guided two Fremont expeditions twenty years later. A controversial figure, his drunken sprees are still legend! Soft bound, 234 pages.
The Table of Contents includes the following:- Introduction
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter I. Mountain Men
- Chapter II. A North Carolina Family
- Chapter III. Early Life in Missouri
- Chapter IV. Preacher and Missionary
- Chapter V. With the Osage Indians
- Chapter VI. Changes in the Indian Trade
- Chapter VII. The First Santa Fe Survey
- Chapter VIII. As a Mountain Man
- Chapter IX. Bill Williams, Master Trapper
- Chapter X. Piracy on Land
- Chapter XI. Passing of the Fur Trade
- Chapter XII. Fur Trading with the Indians
- Chapter XIII. Trapping and Indian Fighting
- Chapter XIV. The Fremont Expedition of 1848
- Chapter XV. Failure, Retreat, and Starvation
- Chapter XVI. The End and Vindication
- Bibliography
- Index
ISBN: 0-8061-1698-6
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