Identifier: beyondoldfrontie00grin (find matches)
Title: Beyond the old frontier : adventures of Indian-fighters, hunters, and fur-traders
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Ross, Alexander, 1783-1856 Ruxton, George Frederick Augustus, 1820-1848 Garrard, Lewis Hector, 1829-1887 Palliser, John, 1807-1887 Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) Fur trade -- West (U.S.)
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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book thus dealswith a number of cognate subjects, with exploration, hunt-ing, the taking of fur, and Indians in peace and war; and inany or all of these there is excitement and interest enough. Let us look back at some of the happenings in this forgottenWest, which is now again being remembered. CONTENTS PAGE AN EARLY FUR TRADER i FUR HUNTERS OF THE FAR WEST 39 WHEN BEAVER SKINS WERE MONEY 125 GEORGE FREDERICK RUXTON, HUNTER 191 A BOY IN INDIAN CAMPS 235 THE SOLITARY HUNTER 275 THE COUNCIL AT FORT BENTON 323 INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS AMONG THE BUFFALO Frontispiece FACINGPAGE AsSINIBOINE-PlEGAN BATTLE BEFORE THE WALLS OF FORT MACKENZIE 34 KIT CARSON 164 INDIAN SIGNALLING BUFFALO DISCOVERED . . 222A CHEYENNE INDIAN CAMP 258 BISON AND BULL, NOW IN MORTAL COMBAT, METMIDWAY WITH A SHOCK THAT MADE THE EARTHTREMBLE 294 JusT AS HE WAS PUTTING A COPPER CAP ON THE NIPPLE, THE BEAR ROSE ON HER HIND LEGS 316 A DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS TO THE GROS VENTRES . 356 MAP THE FRONTIER COUNTRY AN EARLY FUR TRADER
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AN EARLY FUR TRADER ONE hundred years ago little more was known ofthe Pacific coast than that the land ended atthe edge of the wide ocean, already furrowedby the keels of explorers, whalers, and traders. On the north, Alexander McKenzie had reached thesalt water, and a dozen years later Lewis and Clarkhad come to the mouth of the Columbia. A few yearsafter that came the Astor settlement at Astoria, soon—in 1813—to be handed over to the British, to theNorthwest Company, which remained in control thereuntil its consolidation with the Hudson Bay Companyin 1821. One of the first commercial adventurers to theColumbia River, and one of the first men engaged byJohn Jacob Astor for his far western fur-trading expe-ditions, was Alexander Ross, a Scotchman, who cameto Canada in early life, spent more than forty-fouryears in the fur trade, and finally died in the Red Riversettlement in 1856. Unlike most fur traders, he hadthe energy and the interest, in the later years of hislife, to set dow

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