Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri - The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872

Informationen zum Autor Paul L. Hedren is National Park Service Superintendent at the National Historical Site of the Fort Union Trading Post, which was Larpenteur's home base, and the author of Fort Laramie in 1876: Chronicle of a Frontier Post at War (Nebraska 1988). Klappentext The son of French immigrants who settled in Maryland, Charles Larpenteur was so eager to see the real American West that he talked himself into a job with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1833. Zusammenfassung For forty years, as a company man and as an independent agent, Charles Larpenteur would ply the fur trade on the upper Missouri River. Based on Larpenteur's daily journals, this memoir describes the business side and social milieu of the fur trade conducted from wintering houses and subposts in the Indian country.

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• Authors: Charles Larpenteur, Charles Quaife Larpenteur, Milo Milton Quaife, Milo Milton Larpenteur Quaife
• Assisted by: Milo Milton Quaife (Illustration)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1989
• EAN: 9780803279308
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7930-8
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Bison Book S; Bison Book S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / General, History - General History