Upon reaching the confluence of the Laramie and Platte Rivers in late August, they divided into trapping parties of fifteen to twenty men for the winter hunt. The party of seventy men led by Captain John Gant of the short-lived firm of Gant and Blackwell left the Missouri settlements in April 1831. In 1830 he joined a mercantile firm in Pittsburgh as a clerk, but the lure of western adventure drew him to a fur-trapping expedition bound for the Rocky Mountains. He continued to trade along the river for the rest of his life.Zenas Leonard, a fur trapper best known as the author of Adventures of a Mountain Man, a classic work in the literature of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, on March 19, 1809. In 1835 Leonard returned to Independence, Missouri with enough wealth in furs to establish a store and trading post at Fort Osage. Among the more helpful tribal members he reported encountering was a negro who claimed to have been on Lewis and Clarks expedition, and who may have been the explorer-slave York. They survived, in part, by trading with Native Americans. In 1831 Leonard went with Gant and Blackwells company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition. Louis and working as a clerk for the fur company, Gannt and Blackwell.
As a young adult, he worked for his uncle in Pittsburgh before moving to St. He was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Zenas Leonard (1809 - 1857) was an American mountain man, explorer and trader. Zenas Leonards narrative is comprised of a minute description of the incidents of the adventure, and a valuable history of this immense territory - not from maps and charts, but from personal observation.
Louis in the Spring of 1831, on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, for the purpose of trapping for Furs, and trading with the Indians. Book Synopsis Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard is a journal describing the adventures of a company of 70 men, who left St.
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