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Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard : a native of Clearfield County, Pa., who spent five years in trapping for furs, trading with the Indians, &c., &c., of the Rocky Mountains

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Memoir of Zenas Leonard of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, who spent over five years in the American West serving as clerk for a Saint Louis-based fur company. During a trapping expedition in the Rocky Mountains, his party endured much hardship, the horses died in the harsh winter and the party was at times near starvation. They survived, in part, by trading with Native Americans. Among the more helpful tribal members he reported encountering was a negro who claimed to have been on Lewis & Clark's expedition, and who may have been the explorer-slave York. Leonard's journal was published in book form by D.W. Moore of Clearfield, Pennsylvania in 1839, after being serialized in the Clearfield Republican. It includes many details of the different tribes with which his parties interacted.
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  1. Description And Travel
  2. Fur Trade
  3. Indians Of North America
  4. Leonard, Zenas, 1809 1857
  5. Overland Journeys To The Pacific
  6. Sources
  7. West (U.S.)

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