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Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri
ISBN: 9780803272699 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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...
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 fro...
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On the Upper Missouri: The Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz, 1851-1852
ISBN: 9780806136554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In late 1846, Rudolph Friederich Kurz, a young and idealistic Swiss artist, came to the United States to study and paint American Indians. Because he also had to earn a living, he signed on with the Pierre Chouteau Jr. Company (commonly known as the American Fur Company) and traveled northward on the Missouri River to work as a clerk at Fort Berthold and Fort Union in present-day North Dakota. While living among fur traders and Indians of numerous tribes, Kurz filled a sketchbook and kept a detailed journal. "On the Upper Missouri," an abridged and annotated version of his journal, is an... In late 1846, Rudolph Friederich Kurz, a young and idealistic Swiss artist, came to the United States to study and paint American Indians. Because ... |
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