Ruxton of the Rockies Autobiographical by George Frederic Ruxton PAPERBACK

Ruxton of the RockiesAutobiographical Writings by the Author of Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains and Life in the Far West\nAuthor(s): George Frederick Ruxton, LeRoy R. Hafen, Clyde Porter, Mae Reed Porter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806116037, 978-0806116037\nSynopsis\nMore than a travel book, more than an autobiography, Ruxon of the Rockies is a rare and vivid account of a man who lived during a heroic age: George Frederick Ruxton lived among and wrote about the traders and trappers of the American West.\n\n Ruxton crammed a dozen lifetimes of adventure into his brief twenty-seven years. Leaving his native England in 1838, at the age of seventeen, he set out on endless journeys - fighting in the Carlist Wars in Spain, stationed with the British army in Ireland, hunting with Indians in Upper Canada, attempting to penetrate to the interior of Africa, and carrying out a missi.