My Sixty Years on the Plains

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>For sixty years I lived the life of the frontiersman-hunter trapper scout and guide. - W. T. Hamilton</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>First published in 1905 </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>My Sixty Years on the Plains</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> 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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>As both personal memoir and historical document Hamilton's book provides a rare first-hand perspective on the fur trade westward expansion and the transformation of the American West in the nineteenth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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Essential for readers of Western history frontier memoirs and Native American studies </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>My Sixty Years on the Plains</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> remains a classic in the literature of the Old West.</span></p><p></p>