There is no other pioneer record of this section quite like it. -- American Historical Review When originally published in 1925, one reviewer called Forty Years on the Frontier "the odyssey of a nineteenth-century Ulysses." In 1852, Granville Stuart (1834-1918) traveled with his brother and their father to the Sacramento Valley of California, where they spent five years mining for gold and served in the Rogue River War. In 1857 he and his brother started back to Iowa but were delayed by the outbreak of war between the ...
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There is no other pioneer record of this section quite like it. -- American Historical Review When originally published in 1925, one reviewer called Forty Years on the Frontier "the odyssey of a nineteenth-century Ulysses." In 1852, Granville Stuart (1834-1918) traveled with his brother and their father to the Sacramento Valley of California, where they spent five years mining for gold and served in the Rogue River War. In 1857 he and his brother started back to Iowa but were delayed by the outbreak of war between the Utah Mormons and the United States. After relocating to Montana's Deer Lodge Valley, the Stuarts found gold, and news of their discovery sparked the first Montana gold rush in 1862. Stuart was instrumental in developing the Montana cattle industry and was a leader of the vigilantes who captured and executed numerous horse thieves in the summer of 1884. Stuart's edited reminiscences are a priceless and authentic account of pioneering, prospecting, and community building in the northern Rockies and Great Plains.
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First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: 272; 265 pp. Illustrated, plates, views, portrait frontispiece of the author. Howes S-1096. Adams "Rampaging Herd" 2195. Adams Six-Guns" 2160. Mintz 450: "One of the best books on early Montana history." Clark & Brunet 245 ("1500 sets"): "Stuart was one of the first great cattle barons of the Northwest. His journal is one of the classic accounts of frontier life...'nothing better on the cowboys has ever been written' (quoting Dobie)." Very good. Original navy cloth (corners and edges bumped), gilt spine title, top edge gilt. (3696).
