The Red River Brigade

The Red River Brigade

The TX/LA/OK/AR Brigade of The American Mountain Men

Recommended Reading

Journals & Biographies

Journal of a Trapper, Osborne Russell
Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard
Life in the Rocky Mountains, Warren Angus Ferris
A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1839, F.A.Wislizenus
Wah-to-yah & the Taos Trail, Lewis H. Garrard
Rocky Mountain Life, Rufus B. Sage
Edward Warren, William Drummond Stewart
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, Wahington Irving
Life in the Far West, George F. Ruxton
Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri, Charles Larpenteur
The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman
Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker, Bil Gilbert
Etienne Provost: Man of the Mountains, Jack B. Tykal
The Taos Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, David J. Weber

Firearms & Tools

The Hawken Rifle: Its Place in History, Charles E. Hanson Jr.
The Northwest Gun, Charles E. Hanson Jr.
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men, Carl P. Russell

Horses

UMO Cayuse Handbook, Upper Missouri Outfit Party