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French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West

Editat de LeRoy R. Hafen Introducere de Janet Lecompte
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 1997
“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.
 
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803273023
ISBN-10: 0803273029
Pagini: 333
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

LeRoy R. Hafen is also the editor of Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches, Trappers of the Far West: Sixteen Biographical Sketches, and Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri, all available as Bison Books. Janet Lecompte’s books include Rebellion in Rio Arriba, 1837.