Manifest Destiny

Mountain Men's

journal

1807... Today I was led up by a man named Manuel Lisa up the Missouri River with fourty-one other trappers. We are beaver trappers that trap beavers for their furs. We are also known as mountain mens for catching fur up on the mountains. We each carry guns in case of danger.

WHOOO! Going to the special beaver catching spot is not easy. We are often attacked. Today we were attacked by Indians. The results of the fight was unpleasant. Many mountain men died.

BOOM BOOM BOOM! Today we were attacked by a gigantic black bear. Luckily, we had our guns ready at all times and shot it down.





OH MAN! It is FREEZING cold! The season right now is spring. The lakes here are all frozen, so we set off out traps on the frozen lake. We will continue on and come back later to check if we caught anything.

WOW! Just after a few days we, we come back to the frozen lake. We see many beavers stuck in our traps. There are many dead beavers, some beaver legs because the beaver probably chewed its leg off to escape, and a few amount of living beavers. For the dead beavers, we would skin them and take their fur, but for the living beavers, we kicked them to death instead of wasting our precious on it.

THE TIME HAS COME! After many hardships, it is finally time to trade our fur for money. We meet fur traders at a certain location and they pay us for the fur. After I received my money, I trade it in for whiskey so I could relax from the hardships.

NO.... I feel great pain... I heard mountain men worked hard and died young, but I didn't expect it to happen to me... I would like for people to keep my journal to remember what happened in this time period... and I would like to say....

If you didn't know... the journal entry ended and the mountain men died.

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