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To: longnshort who wrote (774298)	3/11/2014 5:28:30 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574273

I like historical fiction. I read a book about a mountain man who ventured with his Indian wife and children. He was described in the prologue as a mystic. He traveled from Texas to Montana during the book, up and through the east slope of the Rockies, which is where I am so it was especially interesting. His son went to work for Bridger, breaking horses. He hated Mormons. He killed a Frenchman at the fur trading post because the Frenchies were trying to trick him so one of them could do his daughter. The French were pissed, they couldn't understand stabbing a guy to death for just trying to have fun. Anyway, he didn't like to trade with the French Fur Trading company because they behaved like a monopoly. He was killed at the end of the story in a battle where he was fighting for a tribe who was warring with another tribe. The story really gave a flavor of what a guy like that lived through, and the strength of character he had (he was a fictional character). It was over ten years ago and I can't remember the name of the book.