In the latter, the plough-boy's whistle, the gambols of the children on the green, the lowing of the herds, and the deep tones of the evening bell, are unheard not a sound strikes upon the ear, except perchance the distant howling of some wild beast, or war-whoop of the uncultivated savage-all was silent on this occasion save the muttering of a small brook as it wound its way through the deep cavities of the gulch down the mountain, and the gentle whispering of the breeze, as it crept through the dark pine or cedar forest, and sighed in melancholy accents." "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. As it is in the public domain, there are numerous reprints.Zenas Leonard left his parents’ home in Pennsylvania in the early 1830’s to seek his fortune in the West. It includes many details of the different tribes with which his parties interacted. Moore of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, in 1839, after being serialized in the Clearfield Republican. Leonard's journal was published in book form by D.W. He continued to trade along the river for the rest of his life. In 1835 Leonard returned to Independence, Missouri, with enough wealth in furs to establish a store and trading post at Fort Osage. Among the more helpful tribal members he reported encountering was a negro who claimed to have been on Lewis & Clark's expedition, and who may have been the explorer-slave York.
They survived, in part, by trading with Native Americans. Living off the land (Leonard reported that "The flesh of the Buffaloe is the wholesomest and most palatable of meat kind"), Leonard and his associates endured great privation while amassing a fortune in furs the horses died in the harsh winter and the party was at times near starvation. In 1831 he went with Gannt and Blackwell's company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition.
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