A very enthralling story! I travel throughout this area of the country, and the accurate historical perspective of this book will now give new insight to the landscape I pass. The characterization of the various known historical figures really brought the story to life! The narrator did a fabulous job, too. Overall a highly recommended book!

A rich and arduous adventure that kept my focus through the entire read -- word for word. The movie could have adopted more aspects of the book making it better overall, that's Hollywood for you though!

A great story and tale of the rough conditions that men had to endure in that era. The narrator was one of the best that I've heard and I agree with many others that the ending was fairly anticlimactic, but it is based closely on true events so that is not all that surprising. I appreciated the final remarks at the end of the story that went over what was accurate and what parts were fictionalized. Would highly recommend to anyone, but maybe not those with a weak stomach!

awesome story! I don't plan on watching the movie because I loved the book too much. and the narrator was great too

Good novel but the ending was anticlimatic. A good introduction to the era of the mountain man and fur trade.

What an amazing tale of survival story of the book makes me want to learn more about the early 1800s the narration what is done quite easy to follow along and nine hours went by fast I would highly recommend this book to someone

If your idea of revenge after listening to a book for 9 hours is punching a guy in the face and shooting someone in the shoulder then this is your book. If not, don't waste your time. I thought the movie was bad, but the book is worse. The did a very good job of advertising it because they fooled me.

Great Book! Very vivid language! I simply loved it!

Love how the narrator used different voices for each character! Great book

Reminded me of Cormac McCarthy...Jim Harrison and a little David Morrell i.e. "Testament " or "The First Revelle"