TY - BOOK AU - Coyner,David H. TI - The lost trappers: a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade, especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia in the Rocky Mountains AV - F592 .C88 PY - 1847/// CY - Cincinnati PB - J.A. & U.P. James KW - Williams, Ezekiel, KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - West (U.S.) KW - Sources KW - Fur trade KW - Trappers' writings, American KW - History KW - To 1848 KW - Rocky Mountains KW - Description and travel KW - California N1 - Purports to be a narrative taken from the journal of Ezekiel Williams, and other sources, of the wanderings of Williams, James Workman, and Samuel Spencer, in the western country from 1807 to 1810. The work is called a fabrication by H.M. Chittenden (American fur trade, 1902, v. 2, p. 651-656). It apparently has, however, some foundation in fact. Cf. Houck, Louis, Hist. of Missouri, 1908, v. 3, p. 93-94; Publisher's advertisements on 7 p. at end; Wagner-Camp (4th ed.); 130:1 ER -