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 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. 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".
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