The first book in an exciting adventure series—the Temple Buck Quartet—that chronicles the rise and fall of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade, this volume is a coming-of-age story set in the first two years of the fur trade, 1822–24. Temple Buck is a young man whose rollicking tale begins with growing up in the Ohio wilderness before he is kidnapped by an evil keelboat captain. After his rescue by a beautiful St. Louis madam, he finally enlists in the first expedition up the Missouri River to the beaver-rich Rockies for a wealth of adventure and new experiences. This painstakingly researched tale blends historical and fictional characters into a colorful tapestry of actual events spiced with bloody battles, Indian customs, homespun humor, and earthy romance.

Backbone of the World: A Personal Account of the American Rocky Mountain Fur Trade 1822 1824 (Temple Buck Quartet)

Literature & Fiction

Henry, Edward Louis

Genre Fiction

Christopher Matthews Publishing

In this third volume of the Temple Buck Quartet, Temple returns to the Rockies in 1828, rejoins his trapping group, and resumes the carefree life of the American fur trapper where he left two years earlier. Temple and his companions explore uncharted, beaver-rich country, gaining valuable experience in a changing and expanding fur trade. Their personal lives change as well, taking on new responsibilities while enjoying the freedom of the Rocky Mountains. The rich flavors of this life are much improved by the group’s now wider knowledge, deeper experience, and greater appreciation of everything that living in the American wilderness offers to bold men.

Shinin' Times!: One Trapper's Personal Chronicle of the American Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, 1828 1833 (Temple Buck Quartet)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The second novel of the Temple Buck Quartet, this volume chronicles the exploits of Temple Buck and his rowdy trapper companions in the American Mountain fur trade from 1824 to 1826. The group push even farther west in their quest for beaver pelts, exploring new country and encountering fresh adventures, with some of them welcome and others not at all. The heavily researched tale, told in Temple’s own words, blends historical and fictional characters against a colorful backdrop of actual events flavored with gory battles against hostile Indians, humor, and romance, culminating in his disappointing return to his Ohio birthplace.

Free Men: One Trapper's Personal Account of Two More Years in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade 1824 1826 (Temple Buck Quartet)

United States

Shinin' Times! (Temple Buck Quartet Book 3)

Publishing, First Steps

Poredevil's Beaver Tales by Edward Louis Henry is a collection of 24 humorous mountain man tall stories narrated in a loose sort of verse in the voice of a tough, experienced, early-19th Century Rocky Mountain Fur Trapper. These stories are mainly addressed to greenhorns newly come to the mountains, but they are also intended to mystify and amuse veteran companions starved for entertainment. A few of the tales are a re-telling of the whoppers of Jim Bridger and Black Harris, such as Bitter Crick and The Peetrified Mountain. Most are original outrageous lies of Henry's own, related in the mountaineer tradition. All of the stories contain glimpses of the difficult, dangerous life of that rowdy breed of men who challenged America's unchartered wilderness and who survived and triumphed because of their courage, fortitude and unquenchable laughter in the face of hardship and peril. Come along and sprawl beside a beaver camp cookfire and hear how it was-and wasn't-in the Rocky Mountain fur trade.ALSO BY EDWARD LOUIS HENRYThe TEMPLE BUCK QUARTET A Rocky Mountain OdysseyVolume 1: Backbone of the World (1822-1824) Volume 2: Free Men (1824-1826) Volume 3: Shinin' Times (1828-1833) Volume 4: Glory Days Gone Under (1833-1837)

Poredevil's Beaver Tales: A Double Dozen Mountain Man Tales Told in Hip-Sprung Verse

Backbone of the World is a coming-of-age story of the first two years of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, 1822-24. It is told in his own words by Temple Buck, an Ohio-born lad whose rollicking tale begins with growing up in the Ohio wilderness, how he is kidnapped aboard evil Mike Fink’s keelboat, is rescued by a beautiful St. Louis madam, and finally enlists in Ashley and Henry’s first expedition up the Missouri River to the beaver-rich Rockies and a wealth of adventure and undreamed-of new experiences. This painstakingly researched tale blends historical and fictional characters in a colorful tapestry of actual events spiced with bloody battles, Indian customs and characters, homespun humor, and earthy romance. If you’ve ever wished for absolute freedom and hair-raising adventure in the early Old West, come along with Temple and his trapper companions and breathe the free, pure air of the Rocky Mountains!

Backbone of the World: A True Personal Account of the Commencement of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade 1822-1824

Publishamerica Inc

Free Men chronicles the exploits of Temple Buck and his rowdy trapper companions in the Rocky Mountain fur trade from 1824–1826. They roam ever farther west in their quest for beaver, exploring new country and encountering fresh adventures—some of them welcome, others not at all. This well-researched tale, told in Temple’s own words, blends historical and fictional characters against a colorful backdrop of actual events, pungently flavored with gory battles with hostile Indians, homespun humor, and earthy romance, culminating in Temple’s disappointing return to his Ohio birthplace. You are cordially invited to join Temple Buck and his fellow trappers, the only truly free men in all of history.

Free Men

Poredevilas Beaver Tales is a collection of twenty-four humorous mountain man tall stories narrated in a loose sort of verse in the voice of a tough, experienced, early-19th Century Rocky Mountain fur trapper. These stories are mainly addressed to greenhorns newly come to the mountains, but they are also intended to mystify and amuse veteran companions starved for entertainment. A few of the tall tales are a re-telling of the whoppers of Jim Bridger and Black Harris, such as Bitter Crick and the Peetrified Mountain. Most are original outrageous lies of my own, related in the mountaineer tradition. All of the stories contain glimpses of the difficult, dangerous life of that rowdy breed of men who challenged Americaas uncharted wilderness and who survived and triumphed because of their courage, fortitude, and unquenchable laughter in the face of hardship and peril. Come along and sprawl beside a beaver camp cookfire and hear how it wasaand wasnatain the Rocky Mountain fur trade.

Poredevil's Beaver Tales: A Double Dozen: Mountain Man Tall Stories: Told in Hip-sprung Verse

The fourth and final volume in the Temple Buck Quartet describes the final years of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade (1833–1837) through the eyes and in the words of Temple Buck and his trapper comrades as they continue their determined quest for beaver through the uncharted wilderness of the Rockies. Through forbidding western deserts to the Pacific Ocean in Spanish California and back again, the companions harvest not only beaver pelts along the way, but a host of fresh adventures, new friendships, romance, and, at last, an unwelcome education in conservation, marketing, and gentlemen’s fashion. Temple Buck tells this true-to-life tale with homespun humor, matter-of-fact acceptance of high times and hardship, and the mountaineer’s abiding confidence that tomorrow will be better if you make it so.

Glory Days Gone Under: One Trapper's Personal Chronicle of the American Rocky Mountain Fur Trade 1833 1837 (Temple Buck Quartet)

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