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Online-Ressource (615 p)
ISBN:
9780826343475
Inhalt:
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, a
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ISBN 9780826343499
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ISBN 9780826343475
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Print version Chouteaus : First Family of the Fur Trade
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
