Journal ak3ldama's Journal: Small Quote, from 1837 1
"Yes" said the back woods hunter on my left, as he cast away his bone and smoothed down his long auburn hair with his greasy hand, "Yes you English and Irish are always talking about your fine Countries but if they are so mighty fine" (said he with an oath) "why do so many of you run off and leave them and come to America to get a living" from this the conversation turned to an argument in which the Hunter came off victorious driving his opponents from the field.
That's the ending to an entry from the 6th of August in Journal of a Trapper, originally written by Osborne Russell. This was during the years 1834 to 1843 while trapping near/in the Rocky Mountains. He had one previous entry that is a very timely entry right on the 4th of July where they were fording a river and barely escaped but is much to long to try to type in here. Suffice to say it is an excellent read though almost always bad grammar with usually simple entries on where he was traveling. I have already come across one very interesting thing: he makes special note continually of the Blackfeet Indians as being especially mean spirited - this is not present in their Wikipedia entry or other online resources I have read about them. A similar book, which I read when I was younger was The Log of a Cowboy but I don't remember much of it and will have to re-read it.
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