Most important, special thanks to my family. Thank you, Sophie, for helping me experiment with deadfall traps. Thank you, Bo, for your uncanny imitation of a grizzly. And thank you, Traci, for your steadfast support and patient attention through a hundred labored readings.
Key Sources
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Chittenden, Hiram Martin: The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volumes I and II, 1902.
DeVoto, Bernard: Across the Wide Missouri, 1947.
Garcia, Andrew: Montana 1878, Tough Trip through Paradise, 1967.
Knight, Dennis H.: Mountains and Plains: The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes, 1994.
Lavender, David: The Great West, 1965.
Library of Congress, The North American Indian Portfolios, 1993.
McMillion, Scott: Mark of the Grizzly, 1998.
Milner, Clyde A, et al.: The Oxford History of the American West, 1994.
Morgan, Ted: A Shovel of Stars, 1995.
———: Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent, 1993.
Myers, John Myers: The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man, 1963.
Nute, Grace Lee: The Voyageur, 1931.
Russell, Carl P.: Firearms, Traps, & Tools of the Mountain Men, 1967.
Utley, Robert M.: A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific, 1997.
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Willard, Terry: Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rocky Mountains and Neighbouring Territories, 1992.
About the Author
MICHAEL PUNKE serves as the US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also served on the White House National Security Council staff and on Capitol Hill. He was formerly the history correspondent for Montana Quarterly and an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. He is the author of Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917, and Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. His family home is in Montana.
Also by Michael Punke
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
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