Mountain Man
Wife Impregnation

This book had some great descriptions of people and places, but for the most part it was incredibly overlong and repetitive. Also, I'm not entirely sure that it wasn't incredibly racist. At the very least, the mountain men appear to have been pretty abhorrent human beings, and reading about their mi......more

Tidbit: In 1972, 5 years after Fisher's death, Warner Bros. thought for some reason the book had become public domain and they made the movie for around $20 million dollars. Four weeks before release, someone in legal found mention of an Opal Fisher in Prescott, Idaho. They sent a man up. He knocked......more

El Trampero Novela soberbia que narra las aventuras de Samson J. Minard, un Mountain Man en las Montañas Rocosas en el siglo XIX. Lo que se cuenta forma parte de la historia, muchos personajes fueron reales y corrieron aventuras y situaciones al límite. Los Mountain Men eran hombres que vivían solos e......more

Have you ever read a book that delivered more than it promised? My first reaction when I finished the last page was sadness, a pure sadness I haven't felt since as a child I escaped into the books around me and, reading the last page, knew the adventure ended and my between-the-covers friends were n......more

I read this book years ago and had forgotten it until someone here brought it up. I got the paperback version of the book back when the Robert Redford movie based on it came out. I have in my "reading life" gone through periods when I'd read almost exclusively from one genre. This was read during one......more