This account of William Sherley Williams is perhaps the best account of the life of a mountain man ever written. In itinerant preacher, he appointed himself missionary to the Osages, who soon converted him to their ways. A master trapper, he was a guide of the Sibley survey of the Santa Fe trail in 1825, and guided two Fremont expeditions twenty years later. A controversial figure, his drunken sprees are still legend! Soft bound, 234 pages.

The Table of Contents includes the following:

• Introduction
• Acknowledgment
• Chapter I. Mountain Men
• Chapter II. A North Carolina Family
• Chapter III. Early Life in Missouri
• Chapter IV. Preacher and Missionary
• Chapter V. With the Osage Indians
• Chapter VI. Changes in the Indian Trade
• Chapter VII. The First Santa Fe Survey
• Chapter VIII. As a Mountain Man
• Chapter IX. Bill Williams, Master Trapper
• Chapter X. Piracy on Land
• Chapter XI. Passing of the Fur Trade
• Chapter XII. Fur Trading with the Indians
• Chapter XIII. Trapping and Indian Fighting
• Chapter XIV. The Fremont Expedition of 1848
• Chapter XV. Failure, Retreat, and Starvation
• Chapter XVI. The End and Vindication
• Bibliography
• Index

ISBN: 0-8061-1698-6