Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri, Paperback - Leroy R. Hafen

Reducere. John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe legendary mountain men--the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half ...

Reducere. "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...

Reducere. Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand, " Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. W...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph G. Rosa"James Butler Hickok, generally called 'Wild Bill, ' epitomized the archetypal gunfighter, that half-man, hal...

In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Uppe...

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Reducere. Edwin Thompson Denig, for more than twenty years a fur trader on the Upper Missouri and married to an Assiniboine woman, was an acute and objective...

Reducere. In this comprehensive history, David J. Weber draws on Spanish, Mexican, and American sources to describe the development of the Taos trade and the...

Reducere. Walter Arnold (1894-1980) was one of the last in a long line of independent fur trappers from the mountain man era. Living most of his life in the ...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popul...

Reducere. The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every stripe--not least also those who admired and desi...

Reducere. Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize-Center for Great Plains Studies (finalist) Spur Award-Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book-Western Writers...

Reducere. Five Fur Traders of the Northwest captures the day-to-day life of the fur trader during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Long ou...

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Reducere. Tales of the Missouri Indians reflects the folklore, values, and tales of the lost Missouri. Having no written language, verbal traditions passed d...

Reducere. One will not find the name of William Clarke Quantrill in the pantheon of noble Civil War personalities but rather listed near the top of the list ...

This book takes us inside the adventure, hardships, and joys peculiar to the packing trade. Part One is an account of the evolution of the packing ...

Reducere. A classic of ethnobotany, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region has been enlarged for this Bison Book edition with thirty draw...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Incredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West. The ``mountain men`` were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mounta...

Reducere. Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Comb...

Reducere. The first book in an exciting adventure series "The Temple Buck Quartet" that chronicles the rise and fall of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade...

Publisher: Kensington PublishingAuthor(s): Jim R. WoolardNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 244 x 276 x 28Cover type: HardbackRe...

A history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England - nestling deep within the mountains and valleys of the Lake District.Publ...

Reducere. Some seasons of disruption are divinely allowed, while others are self-inflicted. When faced with seasons of disruption, such as we experienced wit...

HERE IS THEIR STORIES... THE UNTOLD STORIES OF INVENTOR AND WIZARD NIKOLA TESLA AND FREE ENERGY FLYING SAUCER BUILDER OTIS T. CARR Here are plans f...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. She was promised to the mysterious mountain men in order to have their baby. Now they're ready to collect their reward. Twenty-one-year-old Soraya ...

Reducere. The Civil War in Missouri was a time of great confusion, violence, and destruction. Although several major battles were fought in the state between...

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The Upper South--Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia--was the scene of the most destructive war ever fought on American soil. Contending ar...

Reducere. DescriptionA curriculum guide designed to supplement the Emmy-Award-winning documentary Oh Freedom After While, The Missouri Sharecropper Protest o...

Reducere. Long the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of in...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this expanded edition of the book Traders of the New Era there are 3 additional interviews (The Home Run Swing Trader, The Futures Sc...

A history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England - nestling deep within the mountains and valleys of the Lake District.

Reducere. DescriptionIn this reprint of a classic piece of cave literature, the famed geologist, J Harlen Bretz, gives a detailed account of the formation an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Timothy RennerWhether presented comedically in popular culture or explored as a serious scientific curiosity, giant, hairy,...

Reducere. Good advice is hard to find. True accountability is harder.As men, it's hard to admit fault, defeat, or weakness. But the reality is we need each o...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Zach Connors and his pa left their Kentucky homestead in the summer of 1824 to see the Rocky Mountains, he didn't realize he would ...

Reducere. DescriptionTennessee's Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into seaso...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Mary FarrellIllustration(s): 50 black-and-white and color photographsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. George Washington Carver (1864-1943) is best known for developing new uses for agricultural crops and teaching methods of soil improvement to south...

Reducere. In 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich s...

Reducere. Missouri has been likened to a "cave factory" because its limestone bedrock can be slowly dissolved by groundwater to form caverns, and the state b...

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Reducere. The concept of the farmer and shopkeeper pulling rifles off pegs on the wall to fight the British has been the typical image of the American minute...

Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one of the most influent...

Reducere. "Every believer in Jesus Christ deserves the opportunity of personal nurture and development." says LeRoy Eims. But all too often the opportunity i...

Reducere. Sets forth the biblical teaching concerning the role relationship of men and women, including the evidence for submission and headship in marriage ...