title: Trails in a Wild Frontier: A story about American angling pioneers exploring rivers in a once-forbidden land!
author:  Lee Hartman 
description: Lee Hartman, born in the coal region in northeast Pennsylvania, now lives along the Upper Delaware River in Equinunk, Pennsylvania. A staunch conservationist, Lee co-founded Friends of the Upper Delaware River, an organization that is actively engaged in protecting the cold-water habitat in the Upper Delaware watershed. He currently serves as Chairman of the Delaware River Committee for PATU and has received congressional recognition for his conservation efforts in the community. Lee also owns World Angling Travels and host anglers to great fly fishing destinations throughout the world. Lee Hartman was one of the first Americans to explore the uncharted rivers in Siberia and the Kola Peninsula. Today the Kola rivers are an extremely popular fly-fishing destination for Atlantic salmon that attracts anglers from all over the world. Lee continues to travel to Russia to fish for those leaping silver bullets.
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  # The Pioneers; a Tale of the Western Wilderness
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### R.M. Ballantyne
  
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER ONE. SHOWS HOW IT BEGAN.
  
  
  CHAPTER TWO. TERRIBLE DISCOVERIES AND ALTERED
  
  
  PLANS.
  
  
  CHAPTER THREE. INTRODUCES THE KING OF PIONEERS.
  
  
  CHAPTER FOUR. VICISSITUDES OF THE VOYAGE —INDIANS
  
  
  MET WITH, ETC.
  
  
  CHAPTER FIVE. DESCRIBES A LITERAL WILD-GOOSE CHASE
  
  
  AND OTHER MATTERS.
  
  
  CHAPTER SIX. INDIANS MET WITH, AND THE MOUTH OF THE
  
  
  GREAT RIVER REACHED.
  
  
  CHAPTER SEVEN. A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE FAR
  
  
  WEST PLANNED AND BEGUN.
  
  
  CHAPTER EIGHT. DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS FACED AND
  
  
  OVERCOME.
  
  
  CHAPTER NINE. DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THE UNKNOWN
  
  
  WILDERNESS.
  
  
  CHAPTER TEN. THE LAST.
  
  
  CHAPTER ELEVEN. EXTRACT OF LETTER REFERRED TO ON
  
  
  PAGE 85.
  
  
  
  
  
  
      Etext from Athelstane.co.uk
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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