Posted:
4/5/2017 11:47:25 AM
by Hal Schindler
His title provided an income of $200,000 a year, allowing Sir George to do pretty much as he pleased. So when Sir William Drummond Stewart, an acquaintance met during a stag-hunting excursion in the Scottish highlands, recounted his adventures in America from 1833 to 1838 and again in 1843 as a comrade of such mountain men as Bridger, Kit Carson and Tom "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick, Gore was inspired to outfit a "grand hunting company for the plains." Having long since taken residence in Brighton, south of London, and become an "absentee Irish landlord," Gore counted on his influence with the British branch of the American Fur Company to help arrange a "proper" hunting expedition in the spring of 1854.