Trappers Of The Far West

Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272189

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Trappers of the Far West by LeRoy Reuben Hafen Pdf

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 American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill, and resourcefulness. This volume brings together brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade, selected from essays assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965–72). The subjects and authors are: Etienne Provost (LeRoy R. Hafen); James Ohio Pattie (Ann W. Hafen); Louis Robidoux (David J. Weber); Ewing Young (Harvey L. Carter); David F. Jackson (Carl D. W Hays); Milton G. Sublette (Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.); Lucien Fontenelle (Alan C. Trottman); James Clyman (Charles L. Camp); James P. Beckwourth (Delmot R. Oswald); Edward and Francis Ermatinger (Harriet D. Munnick); John Gantt (Harvey L. Carter); William W. Bent (Samuel P. Arnold); Charles Autobees (Janet Lecompte); Warren Angus Ferris (Lyman C. Pederson, Jr.); Manuel Alvarez (Harold H. Dunham); and Robert Campbell (Harvey L. Carter). Trappers of the Far West is the companion to Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West.

Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272103

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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West by LeRoy Reuben Hafen Pdf

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 century—formed the vanguard of the American empire and became the heroes of American adventure. This volume brings to the general reader brief biographies of eighteen representative mountain men, selected from among the essay assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965-72). The subjects and authors are: Manuel Lisa (Richard E. Oglesby); Pierre Chouteau Jr. (Janet Lecompte); Wilson Price Hunt (William Brandon); William H. Ashley (Harvey L. Carter); Jedediah Smith (Harvey L. Carter); John McLoughlin (Kenneth L. Holmes); Peter Skene Ogden (Ted J. Warner); Ceran St. Vrain (Harold H. Dunham); Kit Carson (Harvey L. Carter); Old Bill Williams (Frederic E. Voelker); William Sublette (John E. Sunder);Thomas Fitzpatrick (LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen); James Bridger (Cornelius M. Ismert); Benjamin L. E. Bonneville (Edgeley W. Todd); Joseph R. Walker (Ardis M. Walker); Nathaniel Wyeth (William R. Sampson); Andrew Drips (Harvey L. Carter); and Joseph L. Meek (Harvey E. Tobie).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Astoria (Or.)
ISBN : PSU:000053705761

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Trappers and Traders of the Far West by Anonim Pdf

The history of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, from the land and sea expeditions to found Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River to the sale of the trading post to the British during the War of 1812.

Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080326321X

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The American Fur Trade of the Far West by Hiram Martin Chittenden Pdf

The American Fur Trade of the Far West is the premier history of its subject. Its publication in 1902 invited historians and general readers to look more closely at the intricate connec-tions of the fur trade with the development of North America. Hiram Chittenden provides a perspective or overall outline of the fur trade that, after nearly a century, remains sound. Volume 2 of this Bison Book edition follows the traps and trails of such colorful characters as Ezekial Williams, Hugh Glass, Mike Fink, and John Colter. Described here are the explorers, missionaries, government survey parties, and Indian tribes of the fur trade West, and the geography that often determined their success or failure. Nine appendixes containing miscellaneous primary materials precede a bibliography and index. A new feature is a foreword by William R. Swagerty.

Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272693

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Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri by LeRoy Reuben Hafen Pdf

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 on Mackinac Island to subposts beyond the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri focuses on eighteen men who represented the American Fur Company and its successors in the Upper Missouri trade. Their biographies have been compiled from the classic ten-volume Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, edited by LeRoy R. Hafen. These chapters bring back movers and shapers of a great venture: Ramsay Crooks, the mountain man who headed the American Fur Company after Astor; Kenneth McKenzie, "King of the Missouri; " Gabriel Franchere, survivor of the Astorian disaster; Charles Larpenteur, commander of Fort Union and fur-trade chronicler. Here, too, are the fiery William Laidlaw, ambitious James Kipp and John Cabanne Sr., diplomatic David Dawson Mitchell and Malcolm Clark, goutish James A. Hamilton (Palmer), controversial John F. A. Sanford and Francis A. Chardon, easy-going William Gordon, and ill-fated William E. Vanderburgh. Completing this memorable cast are Alexander Culbertson, skilled hunter; Auguste Pike Vasquez, mountain man; Henry A. Boller, educated clerk; and Jean Baptiste Moncravie, trader and raconteur. Writing about these fur traders, trappers, and mountain men are Harvey L. Carter, Carl P. Russell, Ray H. Mattison, Janet Lecompte, John E. Wickman, Charles E. Hanson Jr., and Louis Pfaller. Scott Eckberg, historian at the Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, provides a historical overview in his introduction. LeRoy R. Hafen is theeditor of Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches and Trappers of the Far West: Sixteen Biographical Sketches (both Bison Books).

Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen,Janet Lecompte
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803273029

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French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West by LeRoy Reuben Hafen,Janet Lecompte Pdf

?Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance,? writes Janet Lecompte in her introduction to French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West. They were the first to navigate the Mississippi and its tributaries, and they founded St. Louis and New Orleans. Though France lost her North American possessions in 1763, thousands of her natives remained on the continent. Many of them were voyageurs for Hudson?s Bay Company, whose descendants would join American fur trade companies plying the trans-Mississippi West. ø This volume documents the fact that in the nineteenth century Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. Twenty-two biographies, collected from LeRoy R. Hafen?s classic ten-volume The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, represent a variety of origins and social classes, types of work, and trading areas. Here are trappers who joined John Jacob Astor?s ill-fated fur venture on the Pacific, St. Louis traders who hauled goods to Spanish New Mexico along the Santa Fe Trail, and those who traded with Indians in the western plains and mountains.

Author : Alexander Ross
Publisher : London, Smith
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Fur trade
ISBN : NYPL:33433081819645

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The Fur Hunters of the Far West by Alexander Ross Pdf

Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1015450202

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The American Fur Trade of the Far West by Hiram Martin Chittenden Pdf

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Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Fur trade
ISBN : UVA:X001867076

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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West by LeRoy Reuben Hafen Pdf

Author : LeRoy R. Hafen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Fur trade
ISBN : 087062301X

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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West by LeRoy R. Hafen Pdf

For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Fur trade
ISBN : UOM:39015013508133

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The American Fur Trade of the Far West by Hiram Martin Chittenden Pdf

2 volume set located in Southwest Collection.

Author : George Frederick Augustus Ruxton
Publisher : Edinburgh, London : W. Blackwood and sons
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081819611

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Life in the Far West by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton Pdf

Author : David J. Weber
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0806117028

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The Taos Trappers by David J. Weber Pdf

In this comprehensive history, David J. Weber draws on Spanish, Mexican, and American sources to describe the development of the Taos trade and the early penetration of the area by French and American trappers. Within this borderlands region, colorful characters such as Ewing Young, Kit Carson, Peg-leg Smith, and the Robidoux brothers pioneered new trails to the Colorado Basin, the Gila River, and the Pacific and contributed to the wealth that flowed east along the Santa Fe Trail.

Author : LeRoy R. Hafen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Fur trade
ISBN : 0870620223

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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West by LeRoy R. Hafen Pdf

For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : Arthur H. Clark Company
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002263503

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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West by LeRoy Reuben Hafen Pdf

For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.