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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
Bison Books, 1982
A Mountain Man selection: Volume 1
+ Groundbreaking Fur Trade HIstory Book!
+ Quick Sketches...Good Book
Between 1965-73, famous Western historian LeRoy R. Hafen assembled almost 300 mini-biographies (most 20-30 pages long), written by various other historians, into a 10-volume collection published by the A.H. Clark Company, which had the same title as this one-volume selection taken from the larger ...
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Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
Barton H. Barbour
University of Oklahoma Press, 2001
Local History Done Proud
+ Stunningly written descriptions
+ An impressive work of deftly presented scholarship
When I found that I would be moving to Williston, ND, (25 years ago) I checked to see what all was in the area. I was pleased to notice that the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park was in the next county. I also noticed that there was a National Historic Site nearby as well. The ...
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French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West
University of Nebraska Press, 1997
More fur trade biographies - this time the French participants
+ Excellent, concise biographies
I was surprised to learn in the introduction to this book that a complete roster of fur trappers and traders of the Far West would yield that 80% of the men had French surnames. It's not uncommon to come across French names in diaries and records of the Mountain Man period, but with so much ...
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Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890
LeRoy R. Hafen, Francis Marion Young
University of Nebraska Press, 1984
Splendid
A noble piece of work on this legendary sentinel of the American west.
From the initial founding of Fort Laramie as a trading post in 1834 by fur trappers William Sublette and Robert Campbell, to the demise as a military outpost in 1890, the reader is chronologically taken along on these ...
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William H. Ashley: Enterprise and politics in the trans-Mississippi West
Richard M Clokey
University of Oklahoma Press, 1980
Wm. Ashley: Creator of the rendezvous
+ Intriguing, visionary figure of the early west
Without a doubt, William H. Ashley occupies a major position of importance regarding the development of the West. As the creator of the rendezvous system for resupplying his trappers beyond the Rockies, Ashley deserves a seat of high honor at the historical table. But he was also a tireless ...
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Trappers of the Far West: Sixteen Biographical Sketches (Bison Book)
University of Nebraska Press, 1983
Fur trappers of the West
+ Outstanding and striking
I believe five separate collections of mountain man biographies have been published now by Bison Books, all containing biographical essays culled from LeRoy R. Hafen's ten-volume series THE MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE OF THE FAR WEST, published between 1965 and 1972. This was the second of the ...
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The Assiniboine
Edwin Thompson Denig
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000
Edwin Thompson Denig entered the fur trade on the Upper Missouri River in 1833. As husband to the daughter of an Assiniboine headman and as a bookkeeper stationed at Fort Union, Denig became knowledgeable about the tribal groups of the Upper Missouri. By the 1840s and 1850s, several noted investigators of Indian culture were consulting him, including Audubon, Hayden, and Schoolcraft. He was not ...
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Across the Wide Missouri
Bernard DeVoto
Mariner Books, 1998
Wagh!
+ Real Mountain Man Book!!!
Across the Wide Missouri
Mr. DeVoto has a passion for this subject and a passion for the characters that live in it.
Here are some excerpts from the book:
"There were few delicate feeders in the mountains...The river tribes liked the green, putrid flesh of buffalo drowned while ...
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The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865
John E. Sunder
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993
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Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri
LeRoy R. Hafen
University of Nebraska Press, 1995
Commendable portrayals
+ Great source for biographical info
This book offers some very good, concise descriptions of eighteen lesser known fur trappers,traders and mountain men of the early American west. After reading several books on this subject myself,there were some names I never came across before who were very instrumental during this time period: ...
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Reconstructing Fort Union (National Parks)
John Matzko
University of Nebraska Press, 2001
Built to last, Fort Union survived for forty years—long enough to make it the longest-lived fur-trading post in the history of the United States. But the fort's destruction in 1867 marked only the beginning of a tale just as fascinating, a story that concluded with the partial rebuilding of the fort during the 1980s. In this book, John Matzko conducts us through the colorful history of this ...
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The Fur Hunters of the Far West
Alexander Ross, Kenneth A. Spaulding
University of Oklahoma Press, 2001
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INDIAN LIFE ON THE UPPER MISSOURI (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
John , C Ewers
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000
Fascinating
Indian Life on the Upper Missouri consists of fifteen articles written by John Ewers brings to life the culture of the Native American culture in the Upper Missouri region. He covers everything from remembrances of the days before horses were introduced into the region to the artistic depiction of ...
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Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men
Carl P. Russell
University of New Mexico Press, 1977
Great resource
+ Mountain Men Lifestyles and Tools
+ Buy with confidence!!!!
+ Awesome Resource and Read
+ Valuable resource
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Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees and Crows (Civilization of ...
Edwin T. Denig
University of Oklahoma Press, 1975
Definitely NOT for the Politically Correct Bleeding Hearts out there!
+ Not prejudiced; called it as he saw it. Compelling, relevant.
+ Value for the information, not the prejudice
This is a SUPERB work. The information is accurate beyond all possible doubt. It, like The Kiowas (Civilization of the American Indian Series) , The Indians of Texas: From Prehistoric to Modern Times (Texas History Paperbacks) , Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879 , Life Among ...
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