what books do you recommend?

Justin finished Revenant movie and interested to learn more about this era

Give your heart to the hawks by Winfred Blevins. Great read about the Rocky mountain history.

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thanks. Any others you all would reccomend?

I really enjoyed Mountain Man by Vardas Fisher. (Sp) And Big Sky Country , ( I think that’s the title). Mountain Man was supposedly the inspiration for Jerimiah Johnson.

The River of the West, Joe Meek's biography by Frances Fuller Victor.

Journal of a Trapper, Osborne Russell's autobiography.

Rocky Mountains Rendezvous by Fred Gowan.

The Perilous West by Larry E Morris.

Thanks all! I have ordered a used copy of Give your heart to the hawks by Winfred Blevins

and will start with this one and see what else the library has or can order for me

Joe Meek the merry mountain man by Stanley Vestal, Fur Hunters of the Far West by Alexander Ross (A first hand account written just as the beaver trade played out).

Another rare one is the "Adventures and Sufferings of John R Jewitt" by Hillary Stewart Tells the firsthand account of John Jewitt who was a captive and slave of the Nootkas for 3 years. Time frame is a few years before Lewis and Clark visit the area.

Way-to-yah and The Taos Trail by Lewis Gerrard
Life in the Far West by Ruxton
Fandango by Michael Zimmerman
Across The Wide Missouri by Bernard de Voto
John Colter by David Lavender
Etienne Provost by Jack B. Tykal
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie
The American Fur Trade In The Far West by Hiram Matrin Chittenden (a 3 volume set)
Joe Meek The Merry Mountian Man by Stanley Vestal
Old Bill Williams by Favour
The Adventures Of Captian Bonneville by Washington Irving
Terry Johnson made a historical fiction set of books about the mountian man era that's decent reading and historically correct.
You've read Revanant, You owe it to yourself to get and read a copy of Lord Grizzly by Fredrick Manfred. It's old but yet another version of the Hugh Glass ordeal. Very good read.

That ought to get you started. Read these up and I'll give ya some more.

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Some great ones in there. If you saw the revenant movie you owe it to yourself to read the true account of Hugh Glass's life, it didn't need to be hollywoodized like they did, it's incredible enough. I would also encourage you to read some books about Jedediah Smith, Tom Fitzpatrick, James Clyman, and one of the most remarkable mountain men of all, John Colter. Incredible life. You may get hooked on this like I have. I have no interest in fictional books about the mountain men, but if there's a nonfiction account on that era of history that I haven't read, it's because I haven't found it!

You might like “the great salt lake trail” by W. F. Cody and Henry Inman

"A majority of scoundrels" by Don Berry, "The Trade on the Upper Missouri" by Sunder, "Ewing Young" by Holmes

That's an awesome book, but not about the mountain men. Their travels were well after the mountain man period was over.

I haven’t seen anyone mention Jim Baker The Redheaded Shoshoni by Leighton L. Baker Another good book about a Wyoming government trapper from 1943 to 1956 is Bloody Tracks on the Mountain where the Wild Wind Blows by Charles Alma Wilson

thanks all!!