Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Larpenteur, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033179425X ISBN 13: 9780331794250

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2017

Synopsis

Excerpt from Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872

St. Louis has always been the base for fur trading in the territory beyond the Missis sippi. In 1762 two New Orleans merchants founded the firm of Maxent, Laclede and Company, and chose the present site of St. Louis as the location for their trading post. As the post grew into a settlement, a town, and finally into a city, it continued to be the principal trading center of the frontier, and even today its semi-annual fur auctions are the largest in America.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 033179425X
• ISBN 13: 9780331794250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416