1915. As it was in the days of Kit Carson and the Mountain Men. A classic of western Americana by the Englishman, George Frederick Ruxton, this book brilliantly brings to life the whole heroic age of the Mountain Men. The author, from his intimate acquaintance with the trappers and traders of the American Far West, vividly recounts the story of these adventurous and hardy pioneers who opened up the Far West to those who would follow.