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Life outdoors presented many threats, not least among them Native Americans, who were hostile to the mountain men encroaching on the area for their own purposes. For a certain kind of pioneer, this risk and more were outweighed by the benefits of living free, without the restrictions and boundaries of “civilized” settlements. Included in this collection are tales from great writers, including: Washington Irving Stanley Vestal Osborne Russell Francis Parkman Jr. And many more! In The Adventures of the Mountain Men , New York Times bestselling author Stephen Brennan has compiled many of the best stories about the mountain men—the most daring exploits, the death-defying chances taken to hunt big game, the clashes with the arrows of Native Americans, and also the moments when the men were struck by the incomparable beauty of the unsullied, majestic Rocky Mountains.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781510719040","publication_date":"20170725","publisher":"Skyhorse","slug":"the-adventures-of-the-mountain-men","subtitle":"True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and Survival","title":"The Adventures of the Mountain Men"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036140","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Western U.S. History","score":0.7438,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"TRV025120","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Mountain West Travel (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY)","score":0.7382,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036130","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Southwest U.S. History","score":0.7318,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036140","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Western U.S. History","score":0.7438,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"TRV025120","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Mountain West Travel (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY)","score":0.7382,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036130","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Southwest U.S. History","score":0.7318,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"HIS029000","confidence_band":"high","label":"North American History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036040","confidence_band":"high","label":"19th-Century America","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS049000","confidence_band":"high","label":"History Writing","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Western U.S. History","score":0.7438,"slug":"western-u-s-history"},{"label":"Mountain West Travel (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY)","score":0.7382,"slug":"mountain-west-travel-az-co-id-mt-nm-nv-ut-wy"},{"label":"Southwest U.S. History","score":0.7318,"slug":"southwest-u-s-history"}],"reader_fit":["For readers interested in true tales of mountain men and frontier life","For readers drawn to hunting, trapping, and wilderness survival stories"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Paul Andrew Hutton"],"book_id":"9781524746131","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781524746131.jpg?v=9d0ddd9719d3d2cb","score":0.7109,"title":"The Undiscovered Country","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781524746131"},{"authors":["Andy Adams"],"book_id":"9780618083480","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780618083480.jpg?v=b71140ce754274fd","score":0.6932,"title":"The Log of a Cowboy","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780618083480"},{"authors":["John McLain","Robert E. 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