Fifty Years on the Trail

The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide

De: John Y. Nelson

Narrado por: Matthew Erwin

Fifty Years on the Trail is the true story of John Young Nelson (1826-1903), an early frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, and saloon owner. Nelson ran away from home as a young teenager to adventure in the west. He worked on farms, served as a cabin boy on a Mississippi steamer, and became an apprentice with a group of traders traveling west from Missouri.

After meeting a band of Sioux, he got himself adopted into the tribe, learned how to live off the land and became a Sioux warrior. It was Nelson who guided Brigham Young and the Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Nelson later worked with Buffalo Bill fought and served as a sheriff in North Dakota. His exiting story provides fascinating insight into the early American west.

Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks

straight forward history

love the history and John's no nonsense approach to talking about his life and his experience

Loved the book

I loved this book. The readers voice fit well with the picture of John Y. Nelson for me.

How a white man lived in the West

This memoir is a wonderful accounting of the transient nature of a white man’s non conformist life west of the Mississippi in the 1800’s. Living amongst the Native Americans and scouting for the Army.
Speed the telling up a little and the reader becomes a little more lively.