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William Thomas Hamilton

Born

Scotland or Northumberland, England

Died

May 24, 1908

Genre

Memoir

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William Thomas Hamilton (1822 - 1908), also known as Wildcat Bill, was a mountain man, trapper, and scout of the American West. Some accounts say he was "Scottish born", others that he was in the River Till area of Northumberland. He and his parents emigrated to the USA from Scotland while he was an infant.

Trapping from an early age, in the 1850s he became an Indian fighter and at the end of the decade established a trading post, concurrently holding a variety of jobs including county sheriff. ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 2,791 ratings · 154 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting 4.19 avg rating — 2,780 ratings — published 1905 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spying on the Blackfoot: A Mountain Man's Secret Mission Across the Rockies Into Blackfoot Country (1900) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1900	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strategy Six Pack 13: The Caesars, Patrick Henry, My Sixty Years on the Plains, Anne Hutchinson, A Princess from Zanzibar and Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains by Lionel Strachey (Translator), Thomas de Quincey (Contributor), Elbert Hubbard (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have often been asked why we exposed ourselves to such danger? My answer has always been that there was a charm in the life of a free mountaineer from which one cannot free himself, after he once has fallen under its spell.”
― William Thomas Hamilton, My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

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“to dry and smoke for twelve”
― William Thomas Hamilton, My Sixty Years on the Plains

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“Humboldt Lake,”
― William Thomas Hamilton, My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

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