The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (eBook, PDF) - Irving, Washington
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This book is Called The Adventures of Captain Bonneville translated and published by Washington Irving. This book is not a part of a series and a true story. This book is a translation of the journal of Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. In this book Captain Bonneville, François, Marc and Awena who was a native american woman that he bought to help translate with the population. The team travels west and hopes to explore and find riches. John Jacob Astor introduced Washington Irving to Benjamin Bonneville, a captain in the United States Army, who had been assigned the exploration of the…mehr

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This book is Called The Adventures of Captain Bonneville translated and published by Washington Irving. This book is not a part of a series and a true story. This book is a translation of the journal of Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. In this book Captain Bonneville, François, Marc and Awena who was a native american woman that he bought to help translate with the population. The team travels west and hopes to explore and find riches. John Jacob Astor introduced Washington Irving to Benjamin Bonneville, a captain in the United States Army, who had been assigned the exploration of the western extremes of the Louisiana Territory and what lay beyond, the area that Astor and his trappers had briefly "colonized" and then abandoned, by President Jackson in the 1830's. Irving wrote down the stories that Bonneville told him. This is both non-fiction and escapist. One may want to read it with Wikipedia and Google Earth opened to get a more substantive feel for what Irving was writing about and to "be there" albeit 180 years after the fact.
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Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors and the Alhambra. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846. Irving made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819-20.