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Author : Vinson Lackey
Release : 1939
Genre : Oklahoma
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Book Synopsis The Chouteaus and the Founding of Salina, Oklahoma's First White Settlement, 1796 by : Vinson Lackey
Download or read book The Chouteaus and the Founding of Salina, Oklahoma's First White Settlement, 1796 written by Vinson Lackey. This book was released on 1939. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vinson Lackey
Release : 1961
Genre : Salina (Okla.)
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Book Synopsis The Chouteaus and the Founding of Salina by : Vinson Lackey
Download or read book The Chouteaus and the Founding of Salina written by Vinson Lackey. This book was released on 1961. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stan Hoig
Release : 2010-06-08
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Chouteaus by : Stan Hoig
Download or read book The Chouteaus written by Stan Hoig. This book was released on 2010-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late eighteenth century, the vast, pristine land that lay west of the Mississippi River remained largely unknown to the outside world. The area beckoned to daring frontiersmen who produced the first major industry of the American West--the colorful but challenging, often dangerous fur trade. At the lead was an enterprising French Creole family that founded the city of St. Louis in 1763 and pushed forth to garner furs for world markets. Stan Hoig provides an intimate look into the lives of four generations of the Chouteau family as they voyaged up the Western rivers to conduct trade, at times taking wives among the native tribes. They provided valuable aid to the Lewis and Clark expedition and assisted government officials in developing Indian treaties. National leaders, tribal heads, and men of frontier fame sought their counsel. In establishing their network of trading posts and opening trade routes throughout the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, the Chouteaus contributed enormously to the nation's westward movement.
Author : William E. Foley
Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The First Chouteaus by : William E. Foley
Download or read book The First Chouteaus written by William E. Foley. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau dominated trade and enterprise in the Mississippi Valley. In their various roles as merchants, Indian traders, bankers, land speculators, governmental advisors, public officials, and community leaders, the Chouteau brothers exerted a tremendous influence on westward expansion. This is the first full account of their lives and illustrious careers.
Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Release : 1997-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West by : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Download or read book French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance,? writes Janet Lecompte in her introduction to French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West. They were the first to navigate the Mississippi and its tributaries, and they founded St. Louis and New Orleans. Though France lost her North American possessions in 1763, thousands of her natives remained on the continent. Many of them were voyageurs for Hudson?s Bay Company, whose descendants would join American fur trade companies plying the trans-Mississippi West. ø This volume documents the fact that in the nineteenth century Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. Twenty-two biographies, collected from LeRoy R. Hafen?s classic ten-volume The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, represent a variety of origins and social classes, types of work, and trading areas. Here are trappers who joined John Jacob Astor?s ill-fated fur venture on the Pacific, St. Louis traders who hauled goods to Spanish New Mexico along the Santa Fe Trail, and those who traded with Indians in the western plains and mountains.
