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Language: en
Pages: 168
Pages: 168
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward from a depot
Language: en
Pages: 52
Pages: 52
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-08-01 - Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Introduces Information About Men Who Hunted And Trapped Animals For Food And Fur, Lewis And Clark's Journey, Expeditions, Fur-Trading Empires, And Biographies O
Language: en
Pages: 440
Pages: 440
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
The legendary mountain men—the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth centu
Language: en
Pages: 362
Pages: 362
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the
Language: en
Pages: 334
Pages: 334
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-23 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri Ri