The American Fur Trade of the Far West: Volume 2

The American Fur Trade of the Far West is the premier history of its subject. Its publication in 1902 invited historians and general readers to look more closely at the intricate connec-tions of the fur trade with the development of North America. Hiram Chittenden provides a perspective or overall outline of the fur trade that, after nearly a century, remains sound. Volume 2 of this Bison Book edition follows the traps and trails of such colorful characters as Ezekial Williams, Hugh Glass, Mike Fink, and John Colter. Described here are the explorers, missionaries, government survey parties, and Indian tribes of the fur trade West, and the geography that often determined their success or failure. Nine appendixes containing miscellaneous primary materials precede a bibliography and index. A new feature is a foreword by William R. Swagerty.

• The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 1
• The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Vol. 3 of 3: A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the ... Commerce With Santa Fe (Classic Reprint)
• The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man
• Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
• Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains 1834-1843
• Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872
• The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History And Lore Of The First Frontiersmen
• Crow Killer, New Edition: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
• Jim Bridger: Mountain Man
• Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches