My Sixty Years on the Plains

<p>For sixty years I lived the life of the frontiersman-hunter trapper scout and guide. - W. T. Hamilton</p><p></p><p>First published in 1905 <em>My Sixty Years on the Plains</em> is the vivid autobiography of William Thomas Hamilton (1822-1908) a legendary frontiersman trapper scout and Indian fighter whose life spanned the closing of the American frontier.</p><p></p><p>Hamilton recounts his extraordinary experiences in the Rocky Mountains and across the Great Plains where he lived among Native American tribes hunted and trapped for survival and served as a scout during conflicts between settlers and Native peoples. His narrative captures both the hardships and adventures of frontier life-buffalo hunts skirmishes encounters with outlaws and the relentless struggle against nature itself.</p><p></p><p>As both personal memoir and historical document Hamilton's book provides a rare first-hand perspective on the fur trade westward expansion and the transformation of the American West in the nineteenth century.</p><p></p><p>Essential for readers of Western history frontier memoirs and Native American studies <em>My Sixty Years on the Plains</em> remains a classic in the literature of the Old West.</p>