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Zenas Leonard (1809 – 1857) was an American mountain man, explorer and trader, best known for his journal Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard.Leonard was 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 he went with Gant and Blackwell's company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition. Living off the land (Leonard reported that "The flesh of the Buffaloe is the wholesomest and most palatable of meat kind"), Leonard and his associates endured great privation while amassing a fortune in furs; the horses died in the harsh winter and the party was at times near starvation. They survived, in part, by trading with Native Americans. Among the more helpful tribal members he reported encountering was a negro who claimed to have been on Lewis & Clark's expedition, and who may have been the explorer-slave York. In 1835 Leonard returned to Independence, Missouri with enough wealth in furs to establish a store and trading post at Fort Osage. He continued to trade along the river for the rest of his life.Leonard's journal was published in book form by D.W. Moore of Clearfield, Pennsylvania in 1839, after being serialized in the Clearfield Republican. It includes many details of the different tribes with which his parties interacted. As it is in the public domain, there are numerous reprints.

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Although a gritty account of the hardships suffered by the mountain men, Zenas shows a total lack of understanding of the Indian psyche and way of life. He at times calls them heathens and savages, judging them with the Eurocentric eyes normally used by those who weren't able to understand the harsh realities of the Indian life in the early 19th century.He also inadvertently shows how they often killed game for sport and not just survival- sometimes just taking the choice cut of many buffalo and leaving the carcass to rot in the plains. (On one trip with 150 men, he proudly states they killed HUNDREDS of antelope)Usually he will talk about a tribe without explaining (or knowing) what tribe it is, and throughout all his travels we normally don't know just WHERE he is in the country- for those of us with interest in this important history, these 2 points are very important, I would have liked to keep a mental map of his travels.Much better books are "My life with the Indians" by George Catlin, or "Four years in the Rockies" by James Marsh

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