Trappers of the Far West Sixteen Biographical Sketches

Informationen zum Autor Harvey L. Carter is the author of Dear Old Kit: The Historical Christopher Carson, editor of History of the Pike's Peak Region, and a specialist in the history of the exploration of the American West. Klappentext 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. This volume presents brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade! selected from essays assembled in "The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West". Zusammenfassung 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. This volume presents brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade, selected from essays assembled in "The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West".

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• Authors: Harvey L. Carter, Leroy R. Hafen, HAFEN LEROY R
• Assisted by: Harvey Lewis Carter (Photographs), Le Roy Reuben Hafen (Photographs), Leroy R. Hafen (Editor), Leroy R Hafen (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.10.1983
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780803272187
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7218-7
• Pages: 334
• Series: Bison Book; Bison Book
• Subjects: HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); History - U.S.; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century