Osborne Russell papers, 1848-[1921?].

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Osborne Russell papers, 1848-[1921?].

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The Osborne Russell papers include a manuscript draft and galley proof of "Journal of a Trapper." The journal describes the country, climate, animals, and Indians of the Rocky Mountains, as well as the life of a hunter. An appendix contains further information on the country and the Snake and Crow Indians. The galley proof may be for the 1921 edition. There are letters by Osborne to his sisters, one containing an account of the Whitman Massacre, and a letter by Rebecca Russell to Osborne's sister.

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Russell, Osborne, 1814-1892

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Born in a small Maine village in 1814, Osborne Russell ran away to sea at age 16, but he soon gave up seafaring to join a trading and trapping company in Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1834 he signed up for Nathaniel Wyeth's expedition to the Rocky Mountains and the mouth of the Columbia River. Subsequently, he joined Jim Bridger's brigade of old Rocky Mountain Fur Company men, continuing with them after a merger that left the American Fur company in control of the trade. When the fur trade decline...

Read, Eleanor B.

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Russell, Martha S.

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Russell, Rebecca Straney

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