Captain William Drummond, an eccentric Scot, in 1837 traveled along with a supply caravan of fur traders to the thirteenth rendezvous in the Oregon Territory. In his entourage was a young artist from Baltimore, Alfred Jacob Miller. Thanks to Miller and his talent, all those of us who study the era of the Mountain Men and thrill to their tales have a direct window into their world. This volume contains forty-one water-colors from Miller?s collection, each accompanied by a description in the artist?s own words of the scene captured there in. Scenes of the fur trader?s caravan, Indian villages, buffalo hunts, Indian attacks, and several portraits of specific Indians make up this collection. Miller?s work is a time machine, allowing us to enter the scenes of life in this epic with an eyewitness perspective.