From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #448 Reply-To: hist_text Sender: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk hist_text-digest Friday, January 14 2000 Volume 01 : Number 448 In this issue: -       Re: MtMan-List: Trapping in Alaska -       Re: MtMan-List: Hallo! -       Re: MtMan-List: Hallo! -       Fwd: Re: MtMan-List: Hallo! -       MtMan-List: mountain man book -       Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book -       Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book -       Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book -       Re: MtMan-List: Robert Campbell -       Re: MtMan-List: Email use fees (off topic, but important) -       Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book -       Re: MtMan-List: Trapping in Alaska -       Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book -       Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book -       Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:24:46 -0500 From: "John L. Allen" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Trapping in Alaska I hate to sound like a certain politician, but it depends on what your definition of "Alaska" is (or what your definition of "European trappers" is). The Russians were active in the Aleutian Islands as early as the 1740s and had fur trading camps on the mainland of Alaska by the 1750s. This activity was simply an extension of the Siberian fur trade in the most logical direction and the Russians were mostly traders rather than trappers. By the mid-1770s, much of the southern Alaskan coast was extensively mapped by the great British explorers, including Captain James Cook, and British and Boston ships followed into the area for fur-trading purposes by the 1780s. Again, little if any trapping was practiced; furs were obtained by trading with the native peoples. One of North America's most important explorers, the Scot Alexander Mackenzie, traveled down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and, in 1792-93, crossed the Continental Divide (the first European to do so north of Mexico) from the Peace River to the Fraser River, which he followed down to the Pacific. On neither of these trips did he enter into what we now define as Alaska. Neither did he do any trapping but he was representing the continent's largest fur-trading company at the time so he definitely would fall into the category of fur trade explorer. The first documented entry into Alaska from the East (by English and Scots, not Russians who were active only in the coastal areas) came in 1839 when John Bell, a representative of the Hudson's Bay Company, crossed the Richardson Mountains from the Mackenzie River Valley and reached the Porcupine River and followed it downstream to its junction with the Yukon. Bell and his HBC contemporary, Robert Campell, who reached the Yukon in the early 1840s, were both traders and trappers. Sources: John L. Allen (ed.), North American Exploration (Univ. of Neb. Press 1997), especially the relevant chapters by Gibson in vol. 2 and by Allen in vol. 3; Richard Ruggles, A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company and Two Centuries of Mapping (Montreal, 1991); and Theodore J. Karamanski, Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening the Far Northwest, 1821-1852 (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1983). ************************************ Dr. John L. Allen 21 Thomas Drive Storrs, CT 06268 860/487-1346 johnlallen@uconn.cted.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 11:36 AM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Trapping in Alaska > Gee, I almost forgot why I got on here in the frist place! Question, How > early were American/ > Eroupian trappers venturing up into Alaska? > I thought I read about a Canadian Alexander > Mackenzie going into the region in the late 18th. cen.? > Again, Your Most Obidian Servant, > Michael Wolfe > > http://community.webtv.net/MedicineWolfe/TheBuckskinnersCabin > > The road to progress is the path of fools!!! > > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html > - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:16:59 -0800 From: bcunningham@gwe.net (Bill Cunningham) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Hallo! This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_003B_01BF5E89.41B86FC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello. I am a friend of Dr. Cech of your television industry, and of = Peter Semelka, formerly of your country. Good to hear from you. I was = once on a television program on your television called Objective. Bill Cunningham -----Original Message----- From: Pavel Grund To: ve=F8ejn=E1 konference US MM Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 8:31 AM Subject: MtMan-List: Hallo! =20 =20 Hallo ! I am new member these discussion group. I am from Czech republic- = central Europe. Our club TRAPPERS=B4 CORRAL is item of WESTERNERS = INTERNATIONAL, and is focused in life of trappers in USA, mainly = MOUNTAINMENS. If you be interested our activity, visit page = WWW.WESTERNERS.CZ specially TRAPPERS=B4 CORRAL. I'm looking forward to = next interesting discussions . PEGGY - ------=_NextPart_000_003B_01BF5E89.41B86FC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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I am new member = these=20 discussion group. I am from Czech republic- central Europe. Our club = TRAPPERS´ CORRAL is item of WESTERNERS INTERNATIONAL, and is = focused=20 in life of trappers in USA, mainly MOUNTAINMENS. If you be = interested our=20 activity, visit  page WWW.WESTERNERS.CZ specially=20 TRAPPERS´ CORRAL. I'm looking forward to   next = interesting=20 discussions . PEGGY
- ------=_NextPart_000_003B_01BF5E89.41B86FC0-- - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:02:05 -0500 From: hawknest4@juno.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Hallo! On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:30:08 +0100 "Pavel Grund" writes: > Hallo ! PEGGY welcome to the fire hope you enjoy the chat and can understand my accent since i come from the southern united states---while in germany in the military i was told that i spoke with a very heavy accent---not common to others that spoke english--- hope you enjoy and again welcome--- "HAWK" Michael Pierce 854 Glenfield Dr. Palm Harbor Florida 34684 Phone: 1-727-771-1815 e-mail: hawknest4@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:41:42 -0800 (PST) From: George Noe Subject: Fwd: Re: MtMan-List: Hallo! Hawk: I'm from S.C.Oklahoma, and I cain't understand your accent.( You don't talk "Okie") Welcome to the fireside, hope you enjoy !!! Peggy grn > welcome to the fire hope you enjoy the chat and can > understand my accent > since i come from the southern united states---while > in germany in the > military i was told that i spoke with a very heavy > accent---not common to > others that spoke english--- > > > hope you enjoy and again welcome--- > > "HAWK" > Michael Pierce > 854 Glenfield Dr. > Palm Harbor Florida 34684 Phone: > 1-727-771-1815 > e-mail: hawknest4@juno.com > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE > software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: > http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html > ===== George R. Noe< gnoe39@yahoo.com > Watch your back trail, and keep your eyes on the skyline. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:28:21 EST From: Huss931@aol.com Subject: MtMan-List: mountain man book Hello to those who are interested in the mountain man. I need some advise. After years of research on the American mountain man and work on my Ph.D., I wrote a dissertation on Robert Campbell. Over the past years, new letters from him to his wife and other have been found. I decided to add these and convert the book to a more readable novel. I kept his actual words as much as possible and stayed true to his real nature. This man was honorable. The book will be published in late January-- Irish Mountain Man, The Story of Robert Campbell. I want to get a wide distribution and believe that people who are interested in this time and life style would find it interesting and of value to their understanding of the nature of a person who was a close friend of Jim Bridger, Jed Smith and partner of Bill Sublette. Does anyone have any ideas? I have thought of creating a web page [Irishmountainman.com] and trying to get people to go there and order from the Prism Distributing Company which will distribute the book for me. I have been invited to Ireland to sign copies at the Irish-American Folk Park where Campbell's ancestral home has been restored. I am thinking about going to several rendezvous. It will be carried on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc., but, it is complicated and not very profitable to carry it on these dealers. Are there specific places which I should contact to see if they will stock the book? I decided to keep the price as low as possible ($12.95) and in paperback to allow most people to be able to afford it. [I am used to not making much profit-- I run a not-for-profit community mental health center}] I really believe that Campbell has a lot to say to people today. Anyway, I would appreciate any ideas from the readers. Thanks, Steve [huss931@aol.com] - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:52:19 -0800 From: bcunningham@gwe.net (Bill Cunningham) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book Go to http://www:whattheheckisthis? They will list the book for nothing and charge you nothing for those that sell. A real change from the 50 to 55% distributors charge or the 25 to 40 % bookstores get. Congratulations on finishing what must have been a lengthy process. Bill Cunningham - -----Original Message----- From: Huss931@aol.com To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:28 PM Subject: MtMan-List: mountain man book >Hello to those who are interested in the mountain man. > >I need some advise. After years of research on the American mountain man >and work on my Ph.D., I wrote a dissertation on Robert Campbell. Over the >past years, new letters from him to his wife and other have been found. I >decided to add these and convert the book to a more readable novel. I kept >his actual words as much as possible and stayed true to his real nature. >This man was honorable. > >The book will be published in late January-- Irish Mountain Man, The Story of >Robert Campbell. I want to get a wide distribution and believe that people >who are interested in this time and life style would find it interesting and >of value to their understanding of the nature of a person who was a close >friend of Jim Bridger, Jed Smith and partner of Bill Sublette. > >Does anyone have any ideas? I have thought of creating a web page >[Irishmountainman.com] and trying to get people to go there and order from >the Prism Distributing Company which will distribute the book for me. I have >been invited to Ireland to sign copies at the Irish-American Folk Park where >Campbell's ancestral home has been restored. I am thinking about going to >several rendezvous. > >It will be carried on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc., but, it is complicated >and not very profitable to carry it on these dealers. Are there specific >places which I should contact to see if they will stock the book? > >I decided to keep the price as low as possible ($12.95) and in paperback to >allow most people to be able to afford it. [I am used to not making much >profit-- I run a not-for-profit community mental health center}] I really >believe that Campbell has a lot to say to people today. > >Anyway, I would appreciate any ideas from the readers. > >Thanks, > > Steve [huss931@aol.com] > > > >---------------------- >hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:11:06 -0800 From: bcunningham@gwe.net (Bill Cunningham) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book Correction: it's not whattheheckisthis - it's, whattheheckisthat. Sorry\ Bill C - -----Original Message----- From: Huss931@aol.com To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:28 PM Subject: MtMan-List: mountain man book >Hello to those who are interested in the mountain man. > >I need some advise. After years of research on the American mountain man >and work on my Ph.D., I wrote a dissertation on Robert Campbell. Over the >past years, new letters from him to his wife and other have been found. I >decided to add these and convert the book to a more readable novel. I kept >his actual words as much as possible and stayed true to his real nature. >This man was honorable. > >The book will be published in late January-- Irish Mountain Man, The Story of >Robert Campbell. I want to get a wide distribution and believe that people >who are interested in this time and life style would find it interesting and >of value to their understanding of the nature of a person who was a close >friend of Jim Bridger, Jed Smith and partner of Bill Sublette. > >Does anyone have any ideas? I have thought of creating a web page >[Irishmountainman.com] and trying to get people to go there and order from >the Prism Distributing Company which will distribute the book for me. I have >been invited to Ireland to sign copies at the Irish-American Folk Park where >Campbell's ancestral home has been restored. I am thinking about going to >several rendezvous. > >It will be carried on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc., but, it is complicated >and not very profitable to carry it on these dealers. Are there specific >places which I should contact to see if they will stock the book? > >I decided to keep the price as low as possible ($12.95) and in paperback to >allow most people to be able to afford it. [I am used to not making much >profit-- I run a not-for-profit community mental health center}] I really >believe that Campbell has a lot to say to people today. > >Anyway, I would appreciate any ideas from the readers. > >Thanks, > > Steve [huss931@aol.com] > > > >---------------------- >hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:04:17 EST From: Huss931@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book Bill, THANKS. I will try to use it too. Steve - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:03:33 -0700 From: Baird.Rick@orbital-lsg.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Robert Campbell Okay you knowledge-based left-brainers...is the Robert Campbell friend & pard of Sublette the same guy who trekked into the Alaskan country in the '40's...or are they different Campbells? Rick - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:24:36 -0500 From: Anne MacDonnald Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Email use fees (off topic, but important) sorry if I offend... but to put it bluntly...the below 'news' is bullshit.. now back to lurking and sewing for the Alafia a. "Henry B. Crawford" wrote: > >INTERNET FEES-GOING TO CONGRESS > >CNN has reported that within the next two weeks Congress is going to vote > >on allowing telephone companies to CHARGE A TOLL FEE for Internet access. > >Translation: Every time we send a long distance e-mail we will receive a > >long distance charge. This will get costly. Please visit the following web > >site and file a complaint to your Congressperson. We can't allow this to > >pass! The following address will allow you to send an e-mail on this > >subject DIRECTLY to your Congressperson. > > > >http://www.house.gov/writerep > > > >Put this in your address book. Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! > >I hope all of you will pass this on to all your friends and family. We > >should ALL have an interest in this one. > > > >WAIT, THERE'S MORE! IN ADDITION, The last few months have revealed an > >alarming trend in the government of the United States attempting to > >quietly push through legislation that will affect your use of the > >Internet. Under proposed legislation the U.S. Postal Service will be > >attempting to bilk email users out of "alternate postage fees." Bill 602P > >will permit the Federal Govt. to charge a 5 cent surcharge on every email > >delivered, by billing Internet Service Providers at source. The consumer > >would then be billed in turn by the ISP. Washington D.C. lawyer Richard > >Stepp is working without pay to prevent this legislation from becoming > >law. The U.S. Postal Service is claiming that lost revenue due to the > >proliferation of e-mail costing nearly $230,000,000 in revenue per year. > >You may have noticed their recent ad campaign "There is nothing like a > >letter." Since the average citizen received about 10 pieces of e-mail per > >day in 1998, the cost to the typical individual would be an additional 50 > >cents per day, or over $180 dollars per year, above and beyond their > >regular Internet costs. Note that this would be money paid directly to the > >U.S. Postal Service for a service they do not even provide. > > > >The whole point of the Internet is democracy and non-interference. If the > >federal government is permitted to tamper with our liberties by adding a > >surcharge to email, who knows where it will end. You are already paying an > >exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureaucratic inefficiency. It > >currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be delivered from New York to > >Buffalo. If the U.S. Postal Service is allowed to tinker with email, it > >will mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United States. One > >congressman, Tony Schnell (R) has even suggested a "twenty to forty dollar > >per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and beyond the > >government's proposed email charges. Note that most of the major > >newspapers have ignored the story, the only exception being the > >Washingtonian which called the idea of email surcharge "a useful concept > >who's time has come" (March 6th, 1999 Editorial). Don't sit by and watch > >your freedoms erode away! Send this e-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and > >tell all your friends and relatives to write to their Congressman and say > >"No!" to Bill 602P. It will only take a few moments of your time, and > >could very well be instrumental in killing a bill we don't want. PASS THIS > >ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO USES EMAIL REMEMBER THESE ARE TWO SEPARATE > >ISSUES THAT EFFECT ALL OF US ONLINE. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD NOW, NOT > >AFTER. > > **************************************** > Henry B. Crawford Box 43191 > Curator of History Museum of Texas Tech University > mxhbc@ttacs.ttu.edu Lubbock, TX 79409-3191 > 806/742-2442 FAX 742-1136 > Website: http://www.ttu.edu/~museum > ****** Living History . . . Because It's There ****** > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:00:23 -0500 From: "John L. Allen" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book Steve, It's tough to sell good books these days, particularly if you aren't one of the "big names". I wish you luck! A really productive outlet for western books is the bookstore that is housed in nearly all museums and visitors' centers in federal establishments (national parks, monuments, forests, etc.), and state parks/recreation areas in the West. The folks who stock those stores (sometimes run by the federal or state government, more often by a contract vendor) tend to look for reviews of recently published works in the periodical literature to find appropriate titles for their shelves. If you can afford it, send copies of your book for review to journals such as Montana, the magazine of western history (Helena, MT), and the Western Historical Quarterly (Logan, UT). Both of these journals are associated with the Western History Association. Also send copies to state historical societies for review in their journals (virtually all state historical societies in the West have decent quarterly journals). This should help to get your work onto shelves in western bookstores in places of high tourist traffic. For direct sales through your own website or Amazon.com, etc., your best bet is also the book review route in historical journals. You're dealing with a fairly specialized audience that tends to read specialized material. The trick is to get them to notice your book and the best way to do that is to "advertise" through book reviews in the journals produced by the organizations to which they belong. My publishers have told me that one book review in a decent historical periodical is worth several expensive advertisements in the same magazine. Hope this helps. John ************************************ Dr. John L. Allen 21 Thomas Drive Storrs, CT 06268 860/487-1346 johnlallen@uconn.cted.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 3:28 PM Subject: MtMan-List: mountain man book > Hello to those who are interested in the mountain man. > > I need some advise. After years of research on the American mountain man > and work on my Ph.D., I wrote a dissertation on Robert Campbell. Over the > past years, new letters from him to his wife and other have been found. I > decided to add these and convert the book to a more readable novel. I kept > his actual words as much as possible and stayed true to his real nature. > This man was honorable. > > The book will be published in late January-- Irish Mountain Man, The Story of > Robert Campbell. I want to get a wide distribution and believe that people > who are interested in this time and life style would find it interesting and > of value to their understanding of the nature of a person who was a close > friend of Jim Bridger, Jed Smith and partner of Bill Sublette. > > Does anyone have any ideas? I have thought of creating a web page > [Irishmountainman.com] and trying to get people to go there and order from > the Prism Distributing Company which will distribute the book for me. I have > been invited to Ireland to sign copies at the Irish-American Folk Park where > Campbell's ancestral home has been restored. I am thinking about going to > several rendezvous. > > It will be carried on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc., but, it is complicated > and not very profitable to carry it on these dealers. Are there specific > places which I should contact to see if they will stock the book? > > I decided to keep the price as low as possible ($12.95) and in paperback to > allow most people to be able to afford it. [I am used to not making much > profit-- I run a not-for-profit community mental health center}] I really > believe that Campbell has a lot to say to people today. > > Anyway, I would appreciate any ideas from the readers. > > Thanks, > > Steve [huss931@aol.com] > > > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html > - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:47:27 -0700 From: agottfre@telusplanet.net (Angela Gottfred) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Trapping in Alaska Michael Wolfe wrote: >>Eroupian trappers venturing up into Alaska? I thought I read about a Canadian Alexander Mackenzie going into the region in the late 18th. cen.?<< Mackenzie, who worked for the North West Company, went down the Mackenzie River to its mouth in the Arctic Ocean in 1789. In 1793, he went west from Peace River, Alberta to Bella Coola, B.C (on the Pacific Ocean, 13 years before Lewis & Clark). He was knighted for this feat. I'm pretty sure that neither route entered what is now Alaska. The Russians, on the other hand, started trapping sea otters in Alaska's Alexander Archipelago in the 1740's, and started establishing fur posts in Alaska in the 1790's. The Russian-American Company was established in Russia in 1799; it was modelled on the HBC & Dutch East India Company. (This isn't my research area--yet--but I got a copy of a book on the NW coast fur trade for Christmas.) Your humble & obedient servant, Angela Gottfred - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:26:57 -0800 From: "John C. Funk, Jr." Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book Bill, Your web site don't compute.......http://www:whattheheckisthis John Funk - ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Cunningham To: Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 2:52 PM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book > Go to http://www:whattheheckisthis? They will list the book for nothing and > charge you nothing for those that sell. A real change from the 50 to 55% > distributors charge or the 25 to 40 % bookstores get. > Congratulations on finishing what must have been a lengthy process. > > Bill Cunningham > -----Original Message----- > From: Huss931@aol.com > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:28 PM > Subject: MtMan-List: mountain man book > > > >Hello to those who are interested in the mountain man. > > > >I need some advise. After years of research on the American mountain man > >and work on my Ph.D., I wrote a dissertation on Robert Campbell. Over the > >past years, new letters from him to his wife and other have been found. I > >decided to add these and convert the book to a more readable novel. I kept > >his actual words as much as possible and stayed true to his real nature. > >This man was honorable. > > > >The book will be published in late January-- Irish Mountain Man, The Story > of > >Robert Campbell. I want to get a wide distribution and believe that people > >who are interested in this time and life style would find it interesting > and > >of value to their understanding of the nature of a person who was a close > >friend of Jim Bridger, Jed Smith and partner of Bill Sublette. > > > >Does anyone have any ideas? I have thought of creating a web page > >[Irishmountainman.com] and trying to get people to go there and order from > >the Prism Distributing Company which will distribute the book for me. I > have > >been invited to Ireland to sign copies at the Irish-American Folk Park > where > >Campbell's ancestral home has been restored. I am thinking about going to > >several rendezvous. > > > >It will be carried on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc., but, it is > complicated > >and not very profitable to carry it on these dealers. Are there specific > >places which I should contact to see if they will stock the book? > > > >I decided to keep the price as low as possible ($12.95) and in paperback to > >allow most people to be able to afford it. [I am used to not making much > >profit-- I run a not-for-profit community mental health center}] I really > >believe that Campbell has a lot to say to people today. > > > >Anyway, I would appreciate any ideas from the readers. > > > >Thanks, > > > > Steve [huss931@aol.com] > > > > > > > >---------------------- > >hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html > > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html > - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:29:27 -0800 From: bcunningham@gwe.net (Bill Cunningham) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book Turns out I misspelled it - it's "whattheheckisthat - not whattheheckisthis. And. . . for some reason it is not responding today. I have a call in to see why not. News at eleven. . . . - -----Original Message----- From: John C. Funk, Jr. To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 7:27 PM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book >Bill, >Your web site don't compute.......http://www:whattheheckisthis >John Funk > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Bill Cunningham >To: >Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 2:52 PM >Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book > > >> Go to http://www:whattheheckisthis? They will list the book for nothing >and >> charge you nothing for those that sell. A real change from the 50 to 55% >> distributors charge or the 25 to 40 % bookstores get. >> Congratulations on finishing what must have been a lengthy process. >> >> Bill Cunningham >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Huss931@aol.com >> To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com >> Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:28 PM >> Subject: MtMan-List: mountain man book >> >> >> >Hello to those who are interested in the mountain man. >> > >> >I need some advise. After years of research on the American mountain >man >> >and work on my Ph.D., I wrote a dissertation on Robert Campbell. Over >the >> >past years, new letters from him to his wife and other have been found. >I >> >decided to add these and convert the book to a more readable novel. I >kept >> >his actual words as much as possible and stayed true to his real nature. >> >This man was honorable. >> > >> >The book will be published in late January-- Irish Mountain Man, The >Story >> of >> >Robert Campbell. I want to get a wide distribution and believe that >people >> >who are interested in this time and life style would find it interesting >> and >> >of value to their understanding of the nature of a person who was a close >> >friend of Jim Bridger, Jed Smith and partner of Bill Sublette. >> > >> >Does anyone have any ideas? I have thought of creating a web page >> >[Irishmountainman.com] and trying to get people to go there and order >from >> >the Prism Distributing Company which will distribute the book for me. I >> have >> >been invited to Ireland to sign copies at the Irish-American Folk Park >> where >> >Campbell's ancestral home has been restored. I am thinking about going >to >> >several rendezvous. >> > >> >It will be carried on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc., but, it is >> complicated >> >and not very profitable to carry it on these dealers. Are there specific >> >places which I should contact to see if they will stock the book? >> > >> >I decided to keep the price as low as possible ($12.95) and in paperback >to >> >allow most people to be able to afford it. [I am used to not making much >> >profit-- I run a not-for-profit community mental health center}] I really >> >believe that Campbell has a lot to say to people today. >> > >> >Anyway, I would appreciate any ideas from the readers. >> > >> >Thanks, >> > >> > Steve [huss931@aol.com] >> > >> > >> > >> >---------------------- >> >hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html >> >> >> ---------------------- >> hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html >> > > >---------------------- >hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:39:56 -0800 From: bcunningham@gwe.net (Bill Cunningham) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book It's up now. If it doesn't light up for you, go to your search engine and type in whattheheckisthat - Snap and Dogpile both do it for me. Bill C - -----Original Message----- From: John C. Funk, Jr. To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 7:27 PM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book >Bill, >Your web site don't compute.......http://www:whattheheckisthis >John Funk > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Bill Cunningham >To: >Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 2:52 PM >Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mountain man book > > >> Go to http://www:whattheheckisthis? They will list the book for nothing >and >> charge you nothing for those that sell. A real change from the 50 to 55% >> distributors charge or the 25 to 40 % bookstores get. >> Congratulations on finishing what must have been a lengthy process. >> >> Bill Cunningham >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Huss931@aol.com >> To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com >> Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:28 PM >> Subject: MtMan-List: mountain man book >> >> >> >Hello to those who are interested in the mountain man. >> > >> >I need some advise. After years of research on the American mountain >man >> >and work on my Ph.D., I wrote a dissertation on Robert Campbell. Over >the >> >past years, new letters from him to his wife and other have been found. >I >> >decided to add these and convert the book to a more readable novel. I >kept >> >his actual words as much as possible and stayed true to his real nature. >> >This man was honorable. >> > >> >The book will be published in late January-- Irish Mountain Man, The >Story >> of >> >Robert Campbell. I want to get a wide distribution and believe that >people >> >who are interested in this time and life style would find it interesting >> and >> >of value to their understanding of the nature of a person who was a close >> >friend of Jim Bridger, Jed Smith and partner of Bill Sublette. >> > >> >Does anyone have any ideas? I have thought of creating a web page >> >[Irishmountainman.com] and trying to get people to go there and order >from >> >the Prism Distributing Company which will distribute the book for me. I >> have >> >been invited to Ireland to sign copies at the Irish-American Folk Park >> where >> >Campbell's ancestral home has been restored. I am thinking about going >to >> >several rendezvous. >> > >> >It will be carried on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc., but, it is >> complicated >> >and not very profitable to carry it on these dealers. Are there specific >> >places which I should contact to see if they will stock the book? >> > >> >I decided to keep the price as low as possible ($12.95) and in paperback >to >> >allow most people to be able to afford it. [I am used to not making much >> >profit-- I run a not-for-profit community mental health center}] I really >> >believe that Campbell has a lot to say to people today. >> > >> >Anyway, I would appreciate any ideas from the readers. >> > >> >Thanks, >> > >> > Steve [huss931@aol.com] >> > >> > >> > >> >---------------------- >> >hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html >> >> >> ---------------------- >> hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html >> > > >---------------------- >hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #448 ******************************* - To unsubscribe to hist_text-digest, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe hist_text-digest" in the body of the message.