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The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky : During an Expedition From St. Louis, Through the Vast Regions Between That Place & the Pacific Ocean, & Thence Back Through
James O. Pattie
ASIN: B00T98IR3Q
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 234

"American trapper and frontiersman James Ohio Pattie became one of the first known non-Native Americans to visit Grand Canyon. Pattie was part of a French American trapping party." -The Grand Canyon (2018)In June of 1824 James Ohio Pattie, then in his early 20's, left Kentucky with his father, Sylvester, and headed west. They reached Taos, New Mexico, traveled down the Rio Grande, fought with Indians, rescued two white women who had been captured by Comanches, crossed over the Mogollon Mountains (they had to eat one of their horses; later they had to eat their dogs also), and for a while ran a mine and fought more Indians for the Mexicans near Silver City.In southern New Mexico, a party of French trappers, against Pattie's advice, consorted with the wrong Indians and they were massacred, their body parts strewn around the Indian village. The Patties and thirty others joined together ...
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