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West (U.S.)--Description and travel, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Williams, Ezekiel,--ca. 1780-1844, Trappers--West (U.S.)--Biography, Fur trade--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--History--To 1848.
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1995
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F592.C88 1995eb
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978/.02/092
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West (U.S.)--Description and travel, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Williams, Ezekiel,--ca. 1780-1844, Trappers--West (U.S.)--Biography, Fur trade--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--History--To 1848.
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The Lost Trappers
By David H. Coyner
Edited and with an Introduction and a new Afterword By David J. Weber
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NORMAN AND LONDON
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This book contains the complete text of the original edition, published in 1847 under the same title.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coyner, David H. The lost trappers / by David H. Coyner; edited and with an introduction and a new afterword by David J. Weber. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8061-2725-2 1. West (U.S.)Description and travel. 2. Overland journeys to the Pa cific. 3. Williams, Ezekiel, ca. 17801844. 4. TrappersWest (U.S.) Biography. 5. Fur tradeWest (U.S.) 6. West (U.S.)HistoryTo 1848. 1. Weber, David J. II. Title. F592.C881994 978'. 02'092dc2094-36584 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Oklahoma Paperbacks edition published 1995 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University, by special arrangement with the University of New Mexico Press, 1720 Lomas Boulevard, N.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131. Copyright 1970 by the University of New Mexico Press. New Afterword by David J. Weber copyright 1995 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First printing of the University of Oklahoma Press edition, 1995.
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Editor's Introduction
Since its Publication in 1847, The Lost Trappers has both intrigued and bedeviled students of the early Trans-Mississippi West for, despite its author's protestations of fidelity to fact, the book contains a generous amount of fiction. The heart of David H. Coyner's narrative concerns the adventures of Ezekiel Williams, who allegedly led twenty trappers up the Missouri River in 1807, the year after the return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Williams' party reputedly made their way to the Yellowstone and trapped the Rockies, working their way south. By the time Williams reached the Arkansas River, only two of his twenty companions were alive. The others had been killed by Indians in a series of battles and mishaps. At the Arkansas, the three survivors separated: James Workman and Samuel Spencer started for Santa Fe, but became lost; they crossed the Rockies by a circuitous route and luckily met a Spanish caravan bound for California. And Ezekiel Williams placed a canoe in the Arkansas and set out alone for home, reaching the Missouri in 1809or so the story of "the lost trappers" goes.
Although historians have since raised serious questions about the veracity of David Coyner's The Lost Trappers, most nineteenth century readers found the book convincing and would have agreed with the California bookdealer and historian, Hubert Howe Bancroft, who wrote in 1886 that Coyner told his story in a "homely but truthful and direct way which commands the reader's respect and confidence." In both his History of the Northwest Coast and his History of Arizona
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and New Mexico (published, respectively, in 1886 and 1889), Bancroft accepted Coyner's version of Ezekiel Williams' expedition in its entirety. In the latter work, however, Bancroft expressed doubt that Workman and Spencer had journeyed to California in 1809 since caravans did not operate between Santa Fe and Los Angeles that early. Bancroft suggested that this was "evidently a serious error in dates."1
Another nineteenth-century writer, Colonel Henry Inman, was less critical than Bancroft. He told his readers that The Lost Trappers contained the journal of Ezekiel Williams (which it does not); and in two books, The Old Santa Fe Trail and The Great Salt Lake Trail, he recounted Williams' expedition as fact and even added an occasional embellishment of his own. Inman averred, for example, that Williams and his men "were splendid shots with the rifle, and could hit the eye of a squirrel whether the animal stood still or was running up the trunk of a tree."2 Even Coyner, for all of his exaggerating, would have been hard pressed to top that.
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