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The American west is the birthplace of legends. Before the outlaws, lawmen, gamblers, and cowboys made their mark however, the lands west of the Mississippi were explored by a certain 'reckless breed' of individuals. Men we know as mountain men. These doughty men who braved empty plains, forbidding mountain ranges, and turbulent rivers, did so seeking one thing beaver pelts, or as they called them plews. Battered by extremes of weather, menaced by beasts with little fear of man, and harried by unpredictable Indians, the mountain men risked their lives to harvest the valuable furs. Stories came downriver of a place where the beaver were abundant and the finest plews on God's earth could be found. The stories were sporadic however, as few men had ever trapped the area and lived to tell the tale. The place was called 'Three Forks' and was the home of the Blackfoot, the most feared tribe of Indians in the mountains. Seasoned trapper Walter Hatcher knew that if a group were to trap the 'Three Forks' successfully it would be made up of the toughest bunch of men he could find. Trappers with cunning and courage beyond that of other men would have to come together in order to bring home the plews. If such an audacious plan were to be carried out, those who accomplished the feat would surely be known as the most daring of the 'reckless breed' and that is just what Hatcher sets out to do. Almer Johnson did not consider himself reckless, or much of anything at all, as he works on the St. Louis docks. When an unexpected opportunity arises to join a fur trapping expedition the young man seizes the chance to make something of himself. Facing danger at every turn, Almer sets his poles for the mountains knowing he will be lucky if he makes it back with his scalp, but willing to take the risk for the plews.
Plews Mr Arley L Dial 9781500646035 Books
When demand for beaver hats decimated the beaver populations in Europe, traders turned to the New World. Here the pelts were called “plews,” from the Canadian French, “pelu,” meaning hairy. In 1825 the Rocky Mountain plew trade was organized south of the Platte River around a business model called the rendezvous scheme. But in 1819, the evident year of, “Plews, ” a novel by Arley L. Dial, the fur trade in America was still dominated by the Upper Missouri trade, as it had been for a hundred years, controlled by companies in the east.It was a pregnant moment. Business was just recommencing after the War of 1812. Steamboats, navigating the Mississippi since 1811, were turning St. Louis into a major trading city. Missouri was just a few years from statehood. The panic of 1819, instigated by the production of India cotton, which brought on a collapse of cotton prices, which created a liquidity problem at the Second United States Bank, caused money to disappear. Desperate men sought desperate means, and poaching into the Upper Missouri trade looked attractive.
Mister Dial has written a rough and tumble account of an expedition, from St. Louis to the Missouri headwaters, to trap beaver and trade with the Piegan Indians, a southern branch of the Blackfoot nation. His carefully researched yarn unspools in a believable evocation of the era. Readers may be surprised to learn that the Mandan Indians practiced agriculture, including cultivation of corn and vegetables. We glimpse them, and others, just before the plains wars, and white-man diseases, drove them into extinction, or onto reservations. The Mandan were devastated in 1819 by measles and whooping cough.
Mr. Dial takes us into the era through the eyes of his characters, a believable collection of seasoned mountaineers, boatmen, green horns, sadists, cowards, heroes, sea pirates, misfits, traitors, opportunists, and even a free black man, mixed in with various indigenous people rendered surprisingly human rather than as Hollywood cutouts. They forge an intriguing improvisation of struggles, failures and successes.
We see boatmen laboring against the spring floods to get a keelboat upriver. Others of the group march along the banks with a band of horses and mules, hunting and meeting exotic animals. Mr. Dial gives us one of the most convincingly horrible bad men ever to populate the American frontier, and his evil scheme, half business, half personal, haunts the band of trappers to the climax.
The youth of some characters, one boy is only fifteen and some are barely sixteen, is true to the times. At sixteen Abraham Lincoln operated a private ferry service on the Mississippi and at nineteen he took a barge of trading goods down to New Orleans. A contemporary, Lewis H Garrard, went down the Santa Fe Trail at seventeen with some Rocky Mountain traders, and lived to write a book about it.
Mr. Dial is at his absolute best in the wilderness of the Three Forks area as the climax comes amid Indian attacks, treachery, cruelty and triumph. We struggle with the characters through hair-raising battles, winter storms, grizzly encounters, ambushes, numbing calamities and death. One of the survivors, a sixteen year old we meet at the beginning of the book, becomes, by the end, a man with mountains in his veins.
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Plews Mr Arley L Dial 9781500646035 Books Reviews
Arley has crafted a fine novel here. He clearly paints a great picture of life in the wild American west of the early 1800's. I've read some of the criticisms posted here, and find most to be unfounded, though I do believe the editing could have been better. It's obvious from the opening chapter that this could be improved, and likely will be in future releases. His storytelling is brilliant, his characters well-defined and good representations of the lives lived in that era. If you can put up with a few grammatical errors here and there, you should find yourselves drawn into an engrossing story of the fur trade some two decades after Lewis & Clark's epic journey up the Missouri River. Aside from the aforementioned errors, I would give it my highest marks.
THE GOOD This is a wide open tale, encompassing many fairly well developed characters and a nail biting story. For the most part an historically accurate account, the author takes time to develop his characters---some are decent and moral men, others vile and treacherous. I found myself hooked solidly and define aptly enjoyed the ride
THE CRITICISM It may be just the ebook version, but the author could've used a more careful editor. There were broken sentences and repeated modifiers in many places. While these things don't effect the telling of story at all, they do at times tend to break the readers immersion, at least in my opinion. If one more character was to be described as "hale," I was going to bust. I almost feel bad bringing this up as the author clearly has the best of intentions and appears to still be learning his craft, and for the price of the book all of this could be forgiven, however if slight grammatical errors drive you a little nuts you'll have to deal with a few here. In my opinion, after finishing the book, it's worth suffering a few broken sentences etc. as the story itself is truly engrossing and as my four-star rating implies, this criticism is slight in comparison to the book as a whole.
CONCLUSION Buy it, read it and enjoy it! The buy Mr. Arley Dial's next book, as I'm sure it'll be even better!
This is the standard format for a Mountain Man tale. Lots of grizzly bears but with a novel way to protect the trapper from the problems of defending one's self from certain death when using a single shot muzzle-loading rifle. Lewis and Clarks' Corp of Discovery reported many incidents when only a group of men with the rifles of the day could regularly protect themselves from the Great Bear of the plains and Mountains of the Western Frontier.
The trip up the Missouri River from St. Louis was a long and difficult voyage with all hands poling or pulling the flat-bottomed boats loaded with trade goods upstream. It takes a very long time to reach the Rocky Mountains where there are beaver skins AKA Plews to trap or trade for.
There are Indian Nations along the way to trade or to fight. When they reach the Rockies there are the Blackfeet and other tribes who steal their horses and truck. The fights between rival trappers and fur companies help to enliven the last half of this fine book. Plot twists and turns make this a very interesting read. This book goes well with reading or seeing the Revenant. The stories complement each other.
This is a compelling story of intrepid trappers and mountain men who sought their fortune and adventure in the Rockies circa the very early 1800s. An entertaining and very readable book. Extremely well written as the author has a great facility with the language. It's a fictional tale but probably in the category of historical fiction as the author describes in realistic detail the men's experience with the dangerous and challenging elements. These included among other things hostile indians, the weather, competitive trappers and outlaws, bears and beasts as well as the vast distances and spaces. A recommended relaxing and casual read.
When demand for beaver hats decimated the beaver populations in Europe, traders turned to the New World. Here the pelts were called “plews,” from the Canadian French, “pelu,” meaning hairy. In 1825 the Rocky Mountain plew trade was organized south of the Platte River around a business model called the rendezvous scheme. But in 1819, the evident year of, “Plews, ” a novel by Arley L. Dial, the fur trade in America was still dominated by the Upper Missouri trade, as it had been for a hundred years, controlled by companies in the east.
It was a pregnant moment. Business was just recommencing after the War of 1812. Steamboats, navigating the Mississippi since 1811, were turning St. Louis into a major trading city. Missouri was just a few years from statehood. The panic of 1819, instigated by the production of India cotton, which brought on a collapse of cotton prices, which created a liquidity problem at the Second United States Bank, caused money to disappear. Desperate men sought desperate means, and poaching into the Upper Missouri trade looked attractive.
Mister Dial has written a rough and tumble account of an expedition, from St. Louis to the Missouri headwaters, to trap beaver and trade with the Piegan Indians, a southern branch of the Blackfoot nation. His carefully researched yarn unspools in a believable evocation of the era. Readers may be surprised to learn that the Mandan Indians practiced agriculture, including cultivation of corn and vegetables. We glimpse them, and others, just before the plains wars, and white-man diseases, drove them into extinction, or onto reservations. The Mandan were devastated in 1819 by measles and whooping cough.
Mr. Dial takes us into the era through the eyes of his characters, a believable collection of seasoned mountaineers, boatmen, green horns, sadists, cowards, heroes, sea pirates, misfits, traitors, opportunists, and even a free black man, mixed in with various indigenous people rendered surprisingly human rather than as Hollywood cutouts. They forge an intriguing improvisation of struggles, failures and successes.
We see boatmen laboring against the spring floods to get a keelboat upriver. Others of the group march along the banks with a band of horses and mules, hunting and meeting exotic animals. Mr. Dial gives us one of the most convincingly horrible bad men ever to populate the American frontier, and his evil scheme, half business, half personal, haunts the band of trappers to the climax.
The youth of some characters, one boy is only fifteen and some are barely sixteen, is true to the times. At sixteen Abraham Lincoln operated a private ferry service on the Mississippi and at nineteen he took a barge of trading goods down to New Orleans. A contemporary, Lewis H Garrard, went down the Santa Fe Trail at seventeen with some Rocky Mountain traders, and lived to write a book about it.
Mr. Dial is at his absolute best in the wilderness of the Three Forks area as the climax comes amid Indian attacks, treachery, cruelty and triumph. We struggle with the characters through hair-raising battles, winter storms, grizzly encounters, ambushes, numbing calamities and death. One of the survivors, a sixteen year old we meet at the beginning of the book, becomes, by the end, a man with mountains in his veins.
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