The Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper: 1831-1836: Trapping and Trading Expedition, Trade With Native Americans, an Expedition to the Rocky Mountains

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“Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard” is a journal describing the adventures of an organization of 70 men, who left St. Louis within the Spring of 1831, on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, for the aim of trapping for Furs, and trading with the Indians. Zenas Leonard’s narrative is produced from 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 remark.
Zenas Leonard (1809 – 1857) used to be an American mountain man, explorer and trader. He used to be born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. As a young adult, he worked for his uncle in Pittsburgh before moving to St. Louis and working as a clerk for the fur company, Gannt and Blackwell.
In 1831 Leonard went with Gant and Blackwell’s company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition. They survived, in part, by trading with Native Americans. A few of the more helpful tribal members he reported encountering used to be a negro who claimed to have been on Lewis & Clark’s expedition, and who could have been the explorer-slave York. In 1835 Leonard returned to Independence, Missouri with enough wealth in furs to ascertain a store and trading post at Fort Osage. He continued to trade along the river for the remainder of his life.

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