Lige Mounts, Free Trapper

by Frank Bird Linderman

Book Overview

In 1822 Elijah Mounts, barely eighteen, shoulders his rifle and walks from his uncle's Missouri farm to Saint Louis to seek his fortune in the fur trade. Frank B. Linderman's 1922 novel is a first-person account, based on a true story and his own trapping experience, of a young man's coming of age among the trappers and Indians in remote Montana, on the upper reaches of the wild Missouri River. Befriended by Wash Lamkin, "Dad" to all who know him,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803280416
• ISBN13: 9780803280410
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 8.1"