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The Stoney Mountains
The Stoney Mountains
The Stoney Mountains
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Within the purchase of Louisiana Territory by the United States in 1803, the vast, virgin territory of the upper Missouri River offered untold riches to enterprising and bold men. Streams choked with beaver attracted men from all walks of life, some drawn by the lust for wealth, some for the adventure and others to escape their past. For Benjamin Voss, it started as a quest for retribution and ended offering him a new way of life. Amidst the conflict between rival fur companies, and deadly attacks by hostile Indians, Ben finds a place for himself among the mountain men and Indians of the Stoney Mountains. The Stoney Mountains is a historical-fiction, set during the opening of the American fur trade in the Rocky (Stoney) Mountains of the west in what is now Montana. The saga chronicles the first years after the Louisiana Purchase, and the advance of the American mountain men into the lands of the Crow and Blackfoot Indians, pitting the trappers against not only hostile Indians but rival fur companies out of Canada.

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Release dateDec 26, 2016
ISBN9781370661527
The Stoney Mountains
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Sam J. Pisciotta

Sam J. Pisciotta is a lifetime resident of Colorado. He has been involved in historical interpretation and living history for over forty years, practicing and teaching the skills and life-style of the American Mountain Men, using the tools, clothing and foods available in the Rocky Mountains during the 1800’s.Mr. Pisciotta has been an interpreter and instructor in Living History and Native American Sign Language for various Federal Parks and Colorado State Historical sites. He has lectured publicly on 19th century life in the west, trade on the Santa Fe Trail and the American Mountain Men, from elementary school to university levels. He has also provided programs and lectures for the Colorado Division of Wildlife, the Boy Scouts of America and for the Colorado State Muzzle Loaders Convention and annual Rocky Mountain College.Sam's love of the west and its people is reflected in both his historical fictions and his modern westerns.

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