(Paperback)

From the first account of "Colter's Run," published in 1810, fascination with John Colter, one of America's most famous and yet least known frontiersmen and discoverer of Yellowstone Park, has never waned. Unlike other legends of the era like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and K...

(Hardback)

Guiding readers through this labyrinth of hearsay, rumor, and myth, this is the first book to tell the whole story of Colter and his legend, examining everything that is knownor supposedly knownabout Colter and showing how historians have tried in vain to get back to Colter the man, finding instead an enigma they cannot unravel.