Another great book, fiction, but still worth a read if your into the fur trade history. Very light reading, fast paced and interesting. I'm not much for fiction but some leave a mark, this one did.
The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Amazon's Tag Line: The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and ##### Summers: traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers. The story centers on Caudill, a young Kentuckian driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of big, wild places. Caught up in the freedom and savagery of the wilderness, Caudill becomes an untamed mountain man.
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