Across the Wide Missouri - Hardcover

Bernard DeVoto

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1199052256 ISBN 13: 9781199052254

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947

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Not a full historical dissertation of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade but a thorough look at the fur trade at its zenith and its decline. The story of the fur trade not only illustrates the actual work of the fur trade industry, it also includes the interactions between the traders and the native tribes in whose territory the fur trade was conducted. From the nations of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Mandan, Arikara, Crow, and all other in between, westward to the Chinook on the Pacific coast, the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade impacted the way of life and destinies of these native peoples. Book has illustrations of paintings by Charles Bodmer, George Catlin and Alfred Jacob Miller [both b/w and color] that attempt to capture the moments that otherwise would be lost to history. The book sports slight separation of top of spine from binding; slight edgewear; very nice copy; 483 pgs not including acknowledgements, foreword, table of contents, illustrations, preface, principal participants identification;

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