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Trapping and the Fur Trade Catalog

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Catalog:  # 2  / Fur Trade / 2007

 


Chittenden, H. M. / THE AMERICAN FUR TRADE OF THE FAR WEST, 2 volume set, Lincoln, 994 pages, pb, - 1 -, $ 37 [Volume 1 includes the organization and financing of the fur trade and a detailed history of the major American companies operating to the year 1843; Volume 2 describes the explorers, missionaries, government survey parties, and Indian tribes of the fur trade West, nine appendices]

Hafen, L. R. / FRENCH FUR TRADERS & VOYAGEURS in the American West, Lincoln, 7th Edition, 1993, 333 pages, pb, $ 15  [Book covers 22 fur traders and voyageurs who changed the West forever]

Karamanski, R. J. / FUR TRADE AND EXPLORATION: Opening the Far Northwest, 1821 - 1852, Norman, 1983, pb, 330 pages, - 1 -, $ 18

Mattes, M. J. / COLTER’S HELL & JACKSON HOLE, Yellowstone Park Association, 1976, pb, 87 pages, - 3 -, $ 10

Russell, O.; Haines, A. L., Ed. / JOURNAL OF A TRAPPER, 1834 - 1843, Lincoln, 1965, pb, 191 pages, - 2 -, $ 10

Sunder, J. E. / THE FUR TRADE ON THE UPPER MISSOURI, 1840 - 1865, Norman, 1965, pb, 295 pages, - 1 -, $ 19

Weber, D. J. / THE TAOS TRAPPERS: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540 - 1846, Norman, 1982, pb, 263 pages, - 1 -, $ 17  [Describes the Taos trade and early penetration of the area by French and American trappers]

Wishart, D. J. / THE FUR TRADE of the American West, 1807 - 1840, Lincoln, 1979, 237 pages, pb, - 1 -, $ 15  [Traces the fur trade system from the Green River rendezvous and the Fort Union Post to the trading houses of St. Louis and the auctions in New York and in Europe]


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