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Aug 31, 2015 · Tales of trappers and traders on the Montana frontier often involve names like Jim Bridger or John Colter, but those early mountain men didn’t have a corner on the story-telling market. A man named Andrew Garcia, whom most people have never heard of, began a voyage in Bozeman more than 130...
Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879 is the autobiography of Andrew Garcia (1853-1943), a man of Hispanic descent who was born in El Paso, but moved north to Montana in 1876 and became a mountain man.
Jul 2, 2018 · On January 3, 1943, Montana rancher and outfitter Andrew Garcia died in his log home near Fish Creek, leaving behind hundreds if not thousands of handwritten and typed manuscript pages stashed in dynamite boxes.
Tough Trip through Paradise, 1878-1879 narrates what happened when he established a trading company centered on the Musselshell River. As Garcia tells it, he spent the next nine years living the life of an Indian, primarily with the Pend d’Oreilles.
Tough Trip through Paradise, 1878-1879 narrates what happened when he established a trading company centered on the Musselshell River. As Garcia tells it, he spent the next nine years living the life of an Indian, primarily with the Pend d’Oreilles.
Jun 9, 2023 · Tough trip through paradise, 1878-1879. by. Garcia, Andrew, d. 1943. Publication date. 1967. Topics. Indians of North America -- Montana, Montana -- Description and travel. Publisher. Boston : Houghton Mifflin.
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The year was 1878, and so began Garcia’s autobiography, Tough Trip Through Paradise. The book is a colorful, no-holds-barred romp through the last of Montana’s frontier. It recounts Garcia’s time trading with, running from, chasing, and marrying into the last free Native American tribes in Montana.
