John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris Dogs It provides a comprehensive and

It provides a comprehensive and balanced account of a pivotal era that shaped the frontier

Through tales of grit and perseverance

Army and the Plains Indians

came to realize when he was still a boy that the maker of all was Wakan Tanka (the Great Spirit)

Driven out by the flames

John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris Dogs It provides a comprehensive andJohn Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807 8 took him into present day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported sights that inspired the name of Colter's Hell. It was a sulfurous place of hidden fires, smoking pits, and shooting water. And it was real. John Colter is known to history as probably the first white