[Stewart, William Drummond]:

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ALTOWAN; OR, INCIDENTS OF LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. By an Amateur Traveler. An important overland narrative, edited by J. Watson Webb. The book is based on William Drummond Stewart's sporting and fur trading expeditions in 1832, 1838, and 1842 led by the Scottish nobleman who hired artist Alfred Jacob Miller to accompany him on his last adventure in the Rockies before taking over the lordship of Murthley Castle. The account includes the great rendezvous in 1837 where mountain men, Natives Americans, and "savage" white men gathered to trade and socialize."The Englishman [Stewart], an ardent sportsman, spent five years...in the wilds between the Mississippi and the Pacific...Indian life, character, and legends form the staple of [the] composition" - Field. Stewart also befriended Alfred Jacob Miller, who accompanied him on his later trips to the Rockies and produced some of the great paintings and sketches of the American West.

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