William F. Drannan (1832-1913) holds a unique place in American literature and history as an iconic frontiersman who chronicled the wild expanses of the 19th-century American West. Drannan is perhaps best known for his memoir 'Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains,' where he presented a vivid account of his adventures as a trapper, guide, scout, and hunter. His writing offers a first...