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James O. (James Ohio) Pattie

An early American adventurer whose vivid frontier memoir follows years of trapping, travel, danger, and captivity across the West and Mexico. His best-known book remains a firsthand window into the rough, uncertain world of the 1820s borderlands.

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Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824-1830; Willard's Inland Trade with New Mexico, 1825, and Downfall of the Fredonian Republic; and Malte-Brun's Account of Mexico

Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824-1830; Willard's Inland Trade with New Mexico, 1825, and Downfall of the Fredonian Republic; and Malte-Brun's Account of Mexico

by James O. (James Ohio) Pattie, Conrad Malte-Brun, Dr. Willard

About the author

James Ohio Pattie was an American frontiersman and writer from Kentucky, born around 1804 and believed to have died around 1850. He is best known for The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky (1831), a memoir based on expeditions he joined with his father, Sylvester Pattie, through the American West, Southwest, and into Mexico during the 1820s.

His narrative describes fur trapping, trading journeys, conflicts, imprisonment, and long stretches of survival in remote country. Because it tells that story in lively, dramatic detail, the book has remained of interest not just as adventure writing, but also as a historical account of early travel through regions that would later become central to the story of the American West.

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