Rocky Mountain Life, Or, Startling Scenes and Perilous Adventures in the Far West During an Expe

by Rufus B. Sage

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080329137X
• ISBN13: 9780803291379
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Splendid

Lively, realistic and down-to-earth descriptions of early 1840's life in the Rocky Mountains. Sage ventured west in 1841 for "love of adventure, curiosity, health and to acquaint myself with the geography of unexplored regions." What unfolds is a truly absorbing and realistic account of what life was like back then vagabonding from place to place throughout the west. A very accurate and descriptive writer of mountain men and Indian customs, geographical landforms, speculations on future agricultural and economical possibilities, along with his own theories of language evolution between the Indians and Romans many centuries ago, stories of the "White Indians" (Munchies) of Arizona, his curtailed involvement with the Texan army in attempting to seize control of Sante Fe, etc. An excellent book. The reader should have access to an atlas if not familiar with western geography as there are no maps included in the book. It is also too bad that Sage did not include more names of the people he met along the way, as this would have significantly contributed to further historical documentation of other people, places and events. This book would be an ideal candidate to edit, footnote and tear into as our scholarly historians Merrill Mattes, Bernard DeVoto, Leroy Hafen, David Lavender and others have done with their respective endeavors.