The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 - 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 The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 write by John E. Sunder. This book was released on 1993. The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "By beginning where the standard works leave off and carrying the story up to its logical conclusion in 1865, this book fills a definite void in the history of the fur trade in the American West. Set in the upper Missouri country, which was bypassed by settlement until the 1860s, it focuses primarily upon the St. Louis firm of Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and Company, usually known as the American Fur Company....This is not the distorted and romanticized approach so typical of much of the literature on the earlier fur trade. Drama is inherent, but it is sound, well-conceived, carefully documented history."-American Historical Review
A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri
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 A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri write by Jean-Baptiste Truteau. This book was released on 2017-08. A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2018 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award from the Western History Association A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau’s journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the upper Missouri. This fully modern and magisterial edition of this essential journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers in understanding Truteau’s travels and encounters with the numerous Native peoples of the region, including the Arikaras, Cheyennes, Lakotas-Dakotas-Nakotas, Omahas, and Pawnees. Truteau’s writings constitute the very foundation to our understanding of the late eighteenth-century fur trade in the region immediately preceding the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803. An unparalleled primary source for its descriptions of Native American tribal customs, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and physical appearances, A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri will be a classic among scholars, students, and general readers alike. Along with this new translation by Mildred Mott Wedel, Raymond J. DeMallie, and Robert Vézina, which includes facing French-English pages, the editors shed new light on Truteau’s description of the upper Missouri and acknowledge his journal as the foremost account of Native peoples and the fur trade during the eighteenth century. Vézina’s essay on the language used and his glossary of voyageur French also provide unique insight into the language of an educated French Canadian fur trader.
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.
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.
Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839
Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839 - 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 Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839 write by Francis A. Chardon. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thirty years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through the Mandan villages in present-day North Dakota, the Upper Missouri River region was being plied by fur traders. In 1834 Francis A. Chardon, a Philadelphian of French extraction, took charge of Fort Clark, a main post of the American Fur Company on the Upper Missouri. The journal that Chardon began that year offers a rare glimpse of daily life among the Mandan Indians, including the Arikaras, Yanktons, and Gros Ventres. In particular, it is a valuable and graphic record of the smallpox scourge that nearly destroyed the Mandans in 1837. Chardon describes much of historical interest, including such figures as the interpreter Charbonneau, Sacajawea's husband, and the fantastic James Dickson, "Liberator of all the Indians." By the time his account ends in 1839, the fur trade is already in decline. Chardon's journal was long lost, rediscovered, and finally edited and published in 1932 by Annie Heloise Abel, a distinguished scholar whose works, all available as Bison Books, included The American Indian As Slaveholder and Secessionist; The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862-1865; and The American Indian and the End of the Confederacy, 1863-1866. Her historical introduction provides background on the fur trade and on Chardon's life before and after his tenure at Fort Clark. William R. Swagerty is a history professor at the University of Idaho.
