Across The Wide Missouri: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize – The Mountain Fur Trade as Business and Life in the 1830s American West - Softcover

DeVoto, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395924979 ISBN 13: 9780395924976

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1998

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West.

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About the Author

Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a renowned scholar-historian of the American West and one of the country's greatest men of letters.

Reviews

DeVoto won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his series on the settling of the American West. The Course of the Empire traces the history of North America over a period of 278 years. Across the Wide Missouri, however, is more narrowly focused, covering specifically the importance of the fur trade of the early 1800s. Both are solid histories for public and academic libraries.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395924979
• ISBN 13: 9780395924976
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480