author
William A. (William Alonzo) Allen
1848–1944
A frontier memoirist and sporting hunter, he wrote vivid first-hand accounts of life in the Rocky Mountains and of his long experience traveling through the American West. His books capture a rough, fast-changing world of hunting camps, mountain travel, and encounters with Native communities.
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The Sheep Eaters
by William A. (William Alonzo) Allen
About the author
Born in 1848, William Alonzo Allen is known for adventure writing rooted in his own years in the West. His best-known book, Adventures with Indians and Game, or, Twenty Years in the Rocky Mountains (1903), presents a firsthand narrative of travel, hunting, and frontier life in the Rocky Mountain region.
Publishers and library records describe him as an adventurer and sporting hunter who spent many years in Montana Territory and the surrounding country. He was also associated with Crow chief Plenty Coups, and later helped with Plenty Coups's life story.
Allen died in 1944 in Billings, Montana. Today, his work is mainly remembered for its lively picture of Western life at a moment when the older frontier world was already fading into history.