A Majority of Scoundrels - An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company

Informationen zum Autor Don Berry (1932-2001) considered himself a native Oregonian, despite the fact that he was born in Minnesota, with a lineage from Fox Indians. After attending Reed College, where his housemates included poet Gary Snyder, who shared his interest in Eastern metaphysics, Berry began a lifetime of pursuing his many passions: playing down-home blues and composing synthesizer music, sumi drawing and painting, sculpting in bronze, exploring theoretical mathematics, and writing for prize-winning films. In addition to his three novels about the Oregon Territory ( Trask, Moontrap , and To Build a Ship ) published in the early 1960s, Berry wrote A Majority of Scoundrels , a history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. An early Internet pioneer, he also created a remarkable body of literature that exists now only in cyberspace. Klappentext Is a lively and captivating history of the formative years of the American fur trade, the period in which the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, with its corps of trappers and traders, grew to be "the greatest name in the mountains."

Product details

• Authors: Don Berry, Don/ Beckham Berry
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2006
• EAN: 9780870710896
• ISBN: 978-0-87071-089-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / 19th Century