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Old Bill Williams Master Trapper
A portrait of Old Bill Williams, famed mountain man and trapper, known as Red-Headed Shooter and Parson Williams, detailing his early life, Westward journeys, trapping career, and role as Fremont expedition guide, with notes on his death at the hands of Utes and the legends that surround his life. The piece traces his ancestry, movements from North Carolina to Missouri and the West, and the blend of fact and fiction in his enduring fame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Jedediah Strong Smith
Ulysses
Parson Williams
Missouri
Solitaire
Bill Williams
Great West
University of North Carolina Press
Alpheus H. Favsar
Plains
North Carolina
Horse Creek
Rutherford County
Upper
Rio Grande
Colorado
Louisiana Purchase
Virginia
South Carolina
William Sherley
Williams
Sarah Can White
St. Louis
John C. Fremont
Rockies
Arizona
Hap- Williams
Fremont
Taos
Mont
Old Bill