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William T. Hamilton
A real-life mountain man and scout, he turned decades of hard travel across the American West into a vivid frontier memoir. His writing offers a firsthand look at trapping, trading, and the rough world of the nineteenth-century plains.
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The Three Stages of Clarinda Thorbald
by William T. Hamilton
About the author
Born in 1822, William Thomas Hamilton was an American frontiersman, trapper, trader, scout, and author who was also known as Wildcat Bill. Sources describe him as having Scottish and English heritage, and note that he spent much of his life moving through the western frontier during a period of major change in the United States.
Hamilton is best remembered for My Sixty Years on the Plains, published in 1905. The book draws on his long experience in the West and helped preserve the kind of firsthand storytelling that shaped popular ideas of frontier life.
He died in 1908. Today, his work remains of interest to readers who enjoy memoir, western history, and personal accounts from the era of trappers, scouts, and overland travel.