Poredevil's Beaver Tales: A Double Dozen: Mountain Man Tall Stories: Told in Hip-sprung Verse

Poredevilas Beaver Tales is a collection of twenty-four humorous mountain man tall stories narrated in a loose sort of verse in the voice of a tough, experienced, early-19th Century Rocky Mountain fur trapper. These stories are mainly addressed to greenhorns newly come to the mountains, but they are also intended to mystify and amuse veteran companions starved for entertainment. A few of the tall tales are a re-telling of the whoppers of Jim Bridger and Black Harris, such as Bitter Crick and the Peetrified Mountain. Most are original outrageous lies of my own, related in the mountaineer tradition. All of the stories contain glimpses of the difficult, dangerous life of that rowdy breed of men who challenged Americaas uncharted wilderness and who survived and triumphed because of their courage, fortitude, and unquenchable laughter in the face of hardship and peril. Come along and sprawl beside a beaver camp cookfire and hear how it wasaand wasnatain the Rocky Mountain fur trade.