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My life in the mountains and on the plains /

by Meriwether, David
Additional authors: Ed. -- Griffen, Robert A.
Series: The American exploration and travel series 46 Published by : University of Oklahoma Pres (Norman, OK) Physical details: xxi, 301 p. Year: 1965
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The Kentucky frontier --
Up the Missouri --
Council Bluffs --
A journey of mercy --
Indian trader --
Prisoner in Santa Fe --
Indians and trade --
Farming and politics --
Territorial governor --
Dragoons and hostiles --
Apaches, Utes, and Navahos --
Indians, captives, and boundary problems --
An attempt to resign, building the state house, and a vetoed bill.

Autobiography of the frontiersman now published for the first time, reveals that he dictated it to a grand-daughter in 1886, when he was eighty-six.

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