Osborne Russel's "Journal of a Trapper"

[Winter Hawk]

I am reading this for the first time after I got a copy a couple of days ago.  I wish I had read it 40 years ago, but I wasn't interested in the historical aspect of muzzleloading then.  However, I was working for the US Forest Service at the time and got a transfer to the Pinedale Ranger District of the Bridger-Teton N.F. in Wyoming in the summer of 1982.  Mr. Russel's descriptions of the places he goes are familiar although I would need a map now to remember where they all are.  It would have been really neat to have known this history when I was there!  As I wrote, I wasn't interested at the time; shucks, I didn't even get to the museum there, like a dummy! 

Maybe someday I will get there again.  In the meantime it's nice to follow the travels in the book and remember that I have been to some of the same places.

~Kees~

[Spotted Bull]

I once read part of John Audobon's book that he wrote while in St. Francisville, LA area. It is the area that my Dad's folks had a nice plot of land and a big pond. One description of a place in the book reminded me of that pond and the woods around it. It would have been pretty cool to tie the book to the old home place.

[rollingb]

I am reading this for the first time after I got a copy a couple of days ago.  I wish I had read it 40 years ago, but I wasn't interested in the historical aspect of muzzleloading then.  However, I was working for the US Forest Service at the time and got a transfer to the Pinedale Ranger District of the Bridger-Teton N.F. in Wyoming in the summer of 1982.  Mr. Russel's descriptions of the places he goes are familiar although I would need a map now to remember where they all are.  It would have been really neat to have known this history when I was there!  As I wrote, I wasn't interested at the time; shucks, I didn't even get to the museum there, like a dummy! 

Maybe someday I will get there again.  In the meantime it's nice to follow the travels in the book and remember that I have been to some of the same places.

~Kees~

Some of my most memorial elk hunts were above Cora, WY,.... love the area! 

BTW,.... Cora, WY was named for Jim Bridger's 1st. wife,.... Cora Insala Bridger, the daughter of a Flathead Indian Chief, and was the mother of Mary Bridger.

Cora died at Ft. Bridger at the age of 25.