Re: MtMan-List: Re: My reason for being on this list

[Dennis Fisher <difisher@yahoo.com>]

Some more comments on Gail's post:

>Seems that Jedediah got stuck a lot. And he died very >young as a
result of being stuck in the desert.

Smith was killed by Indians along the Cimarron cutoff on the Santa Fe
trail.  He wasn't stuck in the desert.

> At one point I became interested in Jim Bridger, but >he was such a
liar (teller of tall tales), who knows >what is true?

    Celcil Alter's (I'm not sure if that is spelled correctly)
biography of Bridger did an excellent job of separating fact from
fiction.  From what I have read, I don't think Bridger was any more of
a story teller than the rest of frontiersmen of the day.  Jim
Beckworth had a similar reputation.  It seems the ones who got the
worst reputation for story telling were the ones who were illiterate
and never had the chance to defend themselves in writing.  

               Dennis
 
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