Shinin' Times!

by Edward Louis Henry

Overview

Temple Buck returns to the Rockies in 1828, rejoins his trapping bunch and resumes the carefree life of the American free trapper where he left off two years earlier. Temple and his comrades explore uncharted new beaver-rich country, gaining new and different experience in a changing and expanding fur trade. Their personal lives change, as well. They take on new responsibilities while enjoying more than ever the happy-go-lucky life of the Rocky Mountain free trapper, its rich flavors much improved now by their wider knowledge, deeper experience, and greater appreciation of everything that living in the American wilderness offers to bold men who possess enough savvy and smarts and courage to survive on Nature’s bosom.

The TEMPLE BUCK QUARTET
A Rocky Mountain Odyssey

Volume 1: Backbone of the World (1822-1824)
Volume 2: Free Men (1824-1826)
Volume 3: Shinin' Times! (1828-1833)
Volume 4: Glory Days Gone Under (1833-1837)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780983316473
Publisher:	Christopher Matthews Publishing
Publication date:	06/15/2011
Series:	Temple Buck Quartet Series , #3
Pages:	614
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.36(d)

About the Author

Edward Louis Henry is a lifelong horseman and outdoorsman who has been a working cowhand, a Wild West performer, a WWII infantry sergeant, a US Foreign Service officer, and an executive speechwriter. He is the author of the Temple Buck Quartet and Poredevil’s Beaver Tales. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface 1

Author's Foreword 4

Chapter I A Sentimental Journey 6

Chapter II Old Ties Renewed 35

Chapter III Farewell 77

Chapter IV Westering 95

Chapter V A Rocky Mountain Welcome 139

Chapter VI Sweet LakeRendezvous 169

Chapter VII The Flathead 237

Chapter VIII Flatheads 283

Chapter IX Double-harness 319

Chapter X Winter Camp 351

Chapter XI A Season of Prodigies 369

Chapter XII Three Forks 391

Chapter XIII The Cache 411

Chapter XIV Skinny Doha's 447

Chapter XV Fort Nonsense 473

Chapter XVI Pierre's Hole 483

Chapter XVII Grovants 513

Chapter XVIII King of the Missouri 533

Chapter XIX Reprieve 571

About The Author 595

Other Books Louis Henry 597

Editorial Reviews

“There isn’t a dull moment; you can practically taste the buffalo tongue, hear the creak of saddles, and smell the horses and campfire smoke. I found a chuckle on nearly every page.”  —Eric Bye, editor, Muzzle Blasts magazine

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