Full name: John Colter: His Years in the Rockies

Author: Burton Harris Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780803272644 0803272642

John 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 man to discover the region that now includes Yellowstone National Park. In a classic book, first published in 1952, Burton Harris weighs the facts and legends about a man who was dogged by misfortune and "robbed of the just rewards he had earned." This Bison Book edition includes a 1977 addendum by the author and a new introduction by David Lavender, who considers Colter's remarkable winter journey in the light of current scholarship. Similar books: The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank John Adams by David McCullough A Higher Call by Adam Makos The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom No Easy Day by Mark Owen Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Endurance by Alfred Lansing The Code Book by Simon Singh