Fort Union And The Upper Missouri Fur Trade
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Author |
: Barton H. Barbour |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2002-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806134984 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806134987 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade by : Barton H. Barbour
In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. Barton H. Barbour is Professor of History at Boise State University and author of Jedidiah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Author |
: Charles Larpenteur |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HB0GXU |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (XU Downloads) |
Synopsis Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri by : Charles Larpenteur
Author |
: Erwin N. Thompson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 111 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:233617202 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fort Union Trading Post by : Erwin N. Thompson
Author |
: Edwin Thompson Denig |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 1961 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806113081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806113081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri by : Edwin Thompson Denig
Describes the customs and manners of five Missouri Indian tribes by the author who was a fur trader in Missouri for more than twenty years.
Author |
: Carla Kelly |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0967225159 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780967225159 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fort Buford by : Carla Kelly
Author |
: Karl Bodmer |
Publisher |
: Bison Books |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803211856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803211858 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Karl Bodmer's America by : Karl Bodmer
Looks at the nineteenth-century Swiss artist's watercolors and drawings of the American West, Indians, and Western wildlife
Author |
: Edwin Thompson Denig |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806132353 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806132358 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Assiniboine by : Edwin Thompson Denig
Edwin Thompson Denig was assigned as the post bookkeeper at Fort Union on the Upper Missouri in 1837 by the American Fur Company. He spent close to two decades there and married into the Assiniboine. In the summer of 1851, Father Pierre Jean de Smet spent two weeks at Fort Union. He encouraged Denig to write a number of sketches of the manners and customs of the Assiniboine and neighboring tribes. Denig compiled additional information in response to queries by early ethnographers, including Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who were collecting ethnological information about Indian tribes in the United States.
Author |
: John E. Sunder |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806125667 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806125664 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 by : John E. Sunder
"By beginning where the standard works leave off and carrying the story up to its logical conclusion in 1865, this book fills a definite void in the history of the fur trade in the American West. Set in the upper Missouri country, which was bypassed by settlement until the 1860s, it focuses primarily upon the St. Louis firm of Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and Company, usually known as the American Fur Company....This is not the distorted and romanticized approach so typical of much of the literature on the earlier fur trade. Drama is inherent, but it is sound, well-conceived, carefully documented history."-American Historical Review
Author |
: Barton H. Barbour |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 878 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:30900659 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade, 1830-1865 by : Barton H. Barbour
Author |
: Jennifer S. H. Brown |
Publisher |
: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 584 |
Release |
: 1994-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015071243177 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fur Trade Revisited by : Jennifer S. H. Brown
The Fur Trade Revisited is a collection of twenty-eight essays selected from the more than fifty presentations made at the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference held on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the fall of 1991. Essays contained in this important new interpretive work focus on the history, archaeology, and literature of a fascinating, growing area of scholarly investigation. Underscoring the work's multifaceted approach is an introductory essay by Lily McAuley titled "Memories of a Trapper's Daughter." This vivid and compelling account of the fur-trade life sets a level of quality for what follows. Part one of The Fur Trade Revisited discusses eighteenth-century fur trade intersections with European markets. The essays in part two examine Native people and the strategies they employed to meet demands placed on them by the market for furs. Part three examines the origins, motives, and careers of those who actually participated in the fur trade. Part four focuses attention on the indigenous fur-trade culture and subsequent archaeology in the area around Mackinac Island, Michigan, while part five contains studies focusing on the fur-trade culture in other parts of North America. Part six assesses the fur trade after 1870 and part seven contains evaluations of the critical historical and literary interpretations prevalent in fur-trade scholarship.