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 Gant and Blackwell's company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition. Louis and working as a clerk for the fur company, Gannt and Blackwell.
As a young adult, he worked for his uncle in Pittsburgh before moving to St. Leonard was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The Narrative ends in August 1835, with Leonard's return to Independence.Zenas Leonard (Ma– July 14, 1857) was an American mountain man, explorer and trader, best known for his journal "Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard". Bonneville, Leonard was part of the group sent under command of Captain Joseph Walker to explore the Great Salt Lake region-an expedition that resulted in Walker's finding the overland route to California.
A free trapper until the summer of 1833, when he entered the employ of Captain B. Written "in response to popular demand," so to speak, Leonard's account of these years, based in large part on "a minute journal of every incident that occurred," is recognized as one of the fundamental sources on the exploration of the American West. The last letter received by his parents, left him at the extreme white settlement, where they were busily occupied in making preparations for the expedition to the mountains-from whence he promised to write at short intervals but one misfortune after another happening to the company, he was deprived of all sources of communication-so that no tidings were received of him until he unexpectedly returned to the scenes of his childhood, to the house of his father, in the fall of 1835-after an absence of 5 years and 6 months!" In the spring of 1830, Leonard, a native of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, "ventured to embark in an expedition across the Rocky Mountains, in the capacity of clerk to the company.
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