Chapter 1. "A Much More Furious and Formidable Anamal": Lewis and Clark Encounter the Grizzly Bear From The Journals of Lewis and Clark / Edited by Bernard DeVoto 1 --

Chapter 2. "A Mountain Man, Wagh!" From Life in the Far West / George Frederick Ruxton, Edited by Leroy R. Hafen 14 --

Chapter 3. Winter Lodge From Across the Wide Missouri / Bernard DeVoto 33 --

Chapter 4. Brownskins and Beaver: Trappers on the Stream From Carry the Wind / Terry C. Johnston 50 --

Chapter 5. Wah-to-Yah: A Mountain Man Tall Tale Classic From Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail / Lewis H. Garrard 64 --

Chapter 6. Captured by the Blackfeet From Mountain Man / Vardis Fisher 87 --

Chapter 7. Bighorns and Wind River Range From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville U.S.A. in the Rocky Mountains of the Far West / Washington Irving 118 --

Chapter 8. "Buffler!" From The Big Sky / A. B. Guthrie, Jr. 132 --

Chapter 9. Narrative of a Mountain Man From Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Written by Himself 143 --

Chapter 10. Legend of Broken Hand From The Mountain Men / George Laycock 158 --

Chapter 11. Across the Shining Mountains From The Long Rifle / Stewart Edward White 168 --

Chapter 12. Journal of a Trapper From Journal Of a Trapper / Osborne Russell, Edited by Aubrey L. Haines 187 --

Chapter 13. Trail Blazer: Captain Jedediah Strong Smith From The Mountain Men / George Laycock 206 --

Chapter 14. Lord Grizzly: The Hugh Glass Ordeal From Lord Grizzly / Frederick Manfred 220 --

Chapter 15. A Fur Trader's Narrative From Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur 1833-1872 233 --

Chapter 16. On the Oregon Trail From The Oregon Trail / Francis Parkman 244 --

Chapter 17. Rendezvous and Farewell From The Big Sky / A. B. Guthrie, Jr. 267.