Majority of Scoundrels, A: An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company - Softcover

Berry, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870710893 ISBN 13: 9780870710896

Publisher: Oregon State University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Is a lively and captivating history of the formative years of the American fur trade, the period in which the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, with its corps of trappers and traders, grew to be the greatest name in the mountains.

About this title

About the Author:

Don Berry (1932-2001) considered himself a native Oregonian, although he was born in Minnesota, with a lineage from Fox Indians. After attending Reed College, where his housemates included poet Gary Snyder, who shared his interest in Eastern metaphysics, Berry began a lifetime of pursuing his many passions: playing down-home blues and composing synthesizer music, sumi drawing and painting, sculpting in bronze, exploring theoretical mathematics, and writing for prize-winning films. In addition to his three novels about the Oregon Territory, published in the early 1960s, Berry wrote A Majority of Scoundrels, a history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. An early Internet pioneer, he also created a remarkable body of literature that exists now only in cyberspace.

Stephen Dow Beckham is Pamplin Professor of History at Lewis & Clark College and the author of such books as "Requiem for a People: The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen" and "Many Faces: An Anthology of Oregon Autobiography," Doug Erickson is Head of Special Collections, Jeremy Skinner is an assistant archivist, and Paul Merchant is an editorial assistant, all at Lewis & Clark College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0870710893
• ISBN 13: 9780870710896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432