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History: Cosley, Trapper and Guide Extraordinary, Pt. 2

Reprinted from the September 1953 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Published: October 28, 2021

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Cosley, Trapper and Guide Extraordinary, Pt. 2
By Julia Nelson, Mountain View, Alberta

‘Joe must have been unusually impressed with the man, even to the point of imitation fo Joe himself is well remembered with a rose-decorated buckskin hat like the one he said Kootenai wore, and an early picture records him wearing, also, a fringed sash and a muffler. It is strange, too, that Joe, of whom his sister wrote as being “engaged to so many girls you wouldn’t have fingers enough to count them”… should write of Kootenai Brown: “He became very animated when recounting his love affairs. His Hannah, his Molly, His Nancy!”’

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