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Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
ISBN: 9780806134987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century s most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor s fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union... In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century s most important and longest-lived Uppe... |
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139,24 zł |
Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man Volume 23
ISBN: 9780806141961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic figure.
Barbour tells how a youthful Smith was influenced by notable men who were his family s neighbors, including a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. When he was twenty-three, hard times leavened with... Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, ...
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94,95 zł |