Wilderness Double Edition 15 by David Robbins

Author:David Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: piccadilly publishing, david robbins, early american explorers, westerns ebook, american mountain men, westerns general, untamed american west
Publisher: Piccadilly

Afterword

Transcribing the King journals presents unusual challenges.

Most entries detail the day-to-day life of an average mountain man, or mountaineer, as they liked to call themselves. Dramatic moments, such as clashes with unfriendly tribes, encounters with vicious whites, and conflicts with savage beasts, have formed the crux of the Wilderness series. I have done my best to retell them as faithfully as possible, to relate them as stories you might hear were you seated around a roaring campfire with those who experienced them.

But what are we to make of the more sensational entries? The hairy man-beasts Nate battled in Wilderness #9? The time he says he was sucked up into a tornado and lived? The lost valley in Wilderness #23? And now the NunumBi?

Did the events occur as Nate King recorded them? Or was he “pulling our leg”? Mountain men were notorious for telling tall tales. Bridger, Meek, Russell, they all enjoyed swapping yams to see who could outdo the other. Are some of Nate King’s entries in the same vein?

Ultimately, you, the reader, must decide.

What do I believe? I try to stay impartial, but some of the accounts do strain belief. There are a few I’ve hesitated to transcribe for that very reason.

But who knows. Perhaps one day you’ll read about his run-in with the “red-headed cannibals” of Shoshone legend. Or that lake, high in the Rockies, where a water beast lurks. Or the great bear, the last of its kind, that decapitated buffalo with a swipe of a paw.

Time will tell.

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