Adventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas Leonard

Moore of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, in 1839, after being serialized in the Clearfield Republican. Leonard's journal was published in book form by D.W. He continued to trade along the river for the rest of his life. In 1835 Leonard returned to Independence, Missouri, with enough wealth in furs to establish a store and trading post at Fort Osage. 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. They survived, in part, by trading with Native Americans.

Living off the land (Leonard reported that 'The flesh of the Buffaloe is the wholesomest and most palatable of meat kind'), Leonard and his associates endured great privation while amassing a fortune in furs the horses died in the harsh winter and the party was at times near starvation. In 1831 he went with Gannt and Blackwell's company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition. Louis and working as a clerk for the fur company, Gannt and Blackwell. As a young adult, he worked for his uncle in Pittsburgh before moving to St. Leonard was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. He continued to trade along the river for the rest of his life.Zenas Leonard (Ma– July 14, 1857) was an American mountain man, explorer and trader, known for his journal Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard. In 1835 Leonard returned to Independence, Missouri with enough wealth in furs to establish a store and trading post at Fort Osage. In 1831 Leonard went with Gant and Blackwell's company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition. He was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Zenas Leonard (1809 – 1857) was an American mountain man, explorer and trader.

Zenas Leonard's narrative is comprised of a minute description of the incidents of the adventure, and a valuable history of this immense territory - not from maps and charts, but from personal observation. Louis in the Spring of 1831, on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, for the purpose of trapping for Furs, and trading with the Indians. 'Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard' is a journal describing the adventures of a company of 70 men, who left St.

Adventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas Leonard