ASIN: B00CCKP6CI
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 30
The mountain men who roamed the Rocky Mountain wilderness between the years 1800 and 1860 experienced many different relationships with the Indians upon whose lands they trapped and traded. Where some had their horses stolen and some found themselves victims of rival violence, for the most part, the relationship between the mountain man and the Crow Tribe was both symbiotic, generous, and equally profitable. From their stories, it becomes apparent to an outside observer that the Crow were taken by the circumstances of their time and fraught with both violence and the greed of others, their only hope being that of the self-respecting mountain man who would trap within their lands without dangerous compromise and ignorance. Where some men treated them with dignity and respect, others like Rufus Sage sought only to destroy them based upon a perpetuating stereotype. In the end, the Crow ...
