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Published on: 2015-06-19
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"Life in the Far West" is a classic story of the times of Kit Carson and the “mountain men,” related by one who knew them well, Lieutenant George Frederick Ruxton, of the British Army, who wrote his narrative before the rush of gold-seekers to California in ’49. These trappers and hunters of the days before the Mexican War were the real pioneers who blazed the trail across the Rockies to the Pacific. Lieutenant Ruxton’s book has come down to us as one of the few contemporary pictures of the Far West in that era.Mr. Ruxton was educated at the Military College of Sandhurst, which he quitted at the early age of seventeen, to learn the practice of war in the internecine contests of Spain. He obtained a commission in a squadron of lancers, forming part of the division of General Diego Leon, and was actively engaged in several important combats, displaying a gallantry which won for him the cross of the first class of the order of St. Fernando. On his return from Spain he was gazetted to a commission in the 89th regiment, and served with it in Canada, where he made his first acquaintance with those stirring scenes of Indian life, which he afterwards so graphically delineated. His thirst for adventure made him soon weary of the 'peace-campaigns' of our colonial army; he resigned his commission, and eagerly turned his steps towards the wilderness tenanted only by Red Indians and American trappers.Upon the recollections of this portion of his career he dwelt with fondness to the hour of his death. In one of his letters he writes:—'Although liable to an accusation of barbarism, I must confess that the very happiest moments of my life have been spent in the wilderness of the Far West; and I never recal, but with pleasure, the remembrance of my solitary camp in the Bayou Salade, with no friend near me more faithful than my rifle, and no companions more sociable than my good horse and mules, or the attendant cayute which nightly serenaded us. With a plentiful supply of dry pine logs on the fire, and its cheerful blaze streaming far up into the sky, illuminating the valley far and near, and exhibiting the animals, with well-filled bellies, standing contentedly at rest over their picket-fire, I would sit crosslegged, enjoying the genial warmth, and, pipe in mouth, watch the blue smoke as it curled upwards, building castles in its vapoury wreaths, and, in the fantastic shapes it assumed, peopling the solitude with figures of those far away. Scarcely, however, did I ever wish to change such hours of freedom for all the luxuries of civilized life; and unnatural and extraordinary as it may appear, yet such is the fascination of the life of the mountain-hunter, that I believe not one instance could be adduced of even the most polished and civilized of men, who had once tasted the sweets of its attendant liberty, and freedom from every worldly care, not regretting the moment when he exchanged it for the monotonous life of the settlements, nor sighing, and sighing again, once more to partake of its pleasures and allurements.' One of the most daring and resolute of travellers. A volume fuller of excitement Is seldom submitted to the public. It contains racy and graphic pictures of the habitudes which prevail in the new and semi-barbarous regions to which it refers ; and as the author possessed a natural love of the hardy and adventurous vicissitudes of frontier life, the sketches are doubtless drawn from his own experience. 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