Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade write by Barton H. Barbour. This book was released on 2002-09-23. Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. Barton H. Barbour is Professor of History at Boise State University and author of Jedidiah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri
Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri write by Charles Larpenteur. This book was released on 1898. Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fort Union Trading Post
Fort Union Trading Post - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fort Union Trading Post write by Erwin N. Thompson. This book was released on 1994. Fort Union Trading Post available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri
Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri write by Edwin Thompson Denig. This book was released on 1961. Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the customs and manners of five Missouri Indian tribes by the author who was a fur trader in Missouri for more than twenty years.
Karl Bodmer's America
Karl Bodmer's America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Karl Bodmer's America write by Karl Bodmer. This book was released on 1984. Karl Bodmer's America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the nineteenth-century Swiss artist's watercolors and drawings of the American West, Indians, and Western wildlife