![]() "I could not sleep, and lay contemplating on the striking contrast between a night in the villages of Pennsylvania and one on the Rocky Mountains. Although he was clearly brave and manly, Zenas did miss home: Leonard had been living as a mountain man, completely cut off from civilization, surviving for years just with his gun and traps. Everyone was eager to hear his story, so he wrote it down, first publishing part of it in a local newspaper, and later the entire account as a book. Then one day he showed up at their door, fresh from the Rocky Mountains. They did not hear from him for more than five years, and he was presumed dead. Zenas Leonard left his parents’ home in Pennsylvania in the early 1830’s to seek his fortune in the West. ![]()
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