This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest

Cleland, Robert Glass

Among the early mountain men-trappers and traders-to be encountered in This Reckless Breed of Men are Jedediah S. Smith, Joseph Reddeford Walker, James Ohio Pattie, Jim Bridger, William H. Ashley, Kit Carson, Captain Benjamin Bonneville, Peter Skene Ogden, William A. Sublette, Zenas Leonard, and Ewing Young. This highly acclaimed book by Robert Glass Cleland was first published in 1950.