Kirjahaku

In this third volume of the Temple Buck Quartet, Temple returns to the Rockies in 1828, rejoins his trapping group, and resumes the carefree life of the American fur trapper where he left two years earlier. Temple and his companions explore uncharted, beaver-rich country, gaining valuable experience in a changing and expanding fur trade. Their personal lives change as well, taking on new responsibilities while enjoying the freedom of the Rocky Mountains. The rich flavors of this life are much improved by the group's now wider knowledge, deeper experience, and greater appreciation of everything that living in the American wilderness offers to bold men.

The second novel of the Temple Buck Quartet, this volume chronicles the exploits of Temple Buck and his rowdy trapper companions in the American Mountain fur trade from 1824 to 1826. The group push even farther west in their quest for beaver pelts, exploring new country and encountering fresh adventures, with some of them welcome and others not at all. The heavily researched tale, told in Temple's own words, blends historical and fictional characters against a colorful backdrop of actual events flavored with gory battles against hostile Indians, humor, and romance, culminating in his disappointing return to his Ohio birthplace.

A collection of 24 humorous mountain man tall tales, these stories are narrated in a loose kind of verse in the voice of a tough and experienced early-19th-century Rocky Mountain fur trapper. While a few of the tales are retellings of whoppers by famous historical mountain men, most are original outrageous lies of the author's own, related in the mountaineer tradition. All of the stories contain glimpses of the difficult, dangerous life of that rowdy breed of men who challenged the uncharted wilderness and triumphed because of their courage, fortitude, and unquenchable laughter in the face of hardship and peril.

The fourth and final volume in the Temple Buck Quartet describes the final years of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade (1833-1837) through the eyes and in the words of Temple Buck and his trapper comrades as they continue their determined quest for beaver through the uncharted wilderness of the Rockies. Through forbidding western deserts to the Pacific Ocean in Spanish California and back again, the companions harvest not only beaver pelts along the way, but a host of fresh adventures, new friendships, romance, and, at last, an unwelcome education in conservation, marketing, and gentlemen's fashion. Temple Buck tells this true-to-life tale with homespun humor, matter-of-fact acceptance of high times and hardship, and the mountaineer's abiding confidence that tomorrow will be better if you make it so.