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The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains: Wild West

The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains: Wild West

Ballantyne, Robert Michael

Paperback

WesternsGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1730946364
ISBN13: 9781730946363
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 6 2018
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.33 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Living in the Wild West wasn't always a dream job. There were often skirmishes with the rival groups and an on-going tussle with the Native Americans, who wanted to preserve their own space. But can a group of mountain men survive in these environments or will they succumb to the pressure?R.M. Ballantyne was a famous children's author and a renowned artist.....Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 - 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. He was also an accomplished artist, and exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy.Early lifeBallantyne was born in Edinburgh on 24 April 1825, the ninth of ten children and the youngest son, to Alexander Thomson Ballantyne (1776-1847) and his wife Anne (1786-1855). Alexander was a newspaper editor and printer in the family firm of Ballantyne & Co based at Paul's Works on the Canongate, and Robert's uncle James Ballantyne (1772-1833) was the printer for Scottish author Sir Walter Scott.In 1832-33 the family is known to have been living at 20 Fettes Row, in the northern New Town of Edinburgh. A UK-wide banking crisis in 1825 resulted in the collapse of the Ballantyne printing business the following year with debts of 130,000, which led to a decline in the family's fortunes.Ballantyne went to Canada aged 16, and spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company. He traded with the local Native Americans for furs, which required him to travel by canoe and sleigh to the areas occupied by the modern-day provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, experiences that formed the basis of his novel Snowflakes and Sunbeams (1856). His longing for family and home during that period impressed him to start writing letters to his mother. Ballantyne recalled in his autobiographical Personal Reminiscences in Book Making (1893) that To this long-letter writing I attribute whatever small amount of facility in composition I may have acquired.

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