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 ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI
 Bernard
DeVoto
Paperback..........450 pp.............#1269
$16.00
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 DeVoto tells the story
of the northwestern fur trade at its height in the early 1830s. The competition,
characters, rendezvous and importance of this activity to the westward migration
that followed is chronicled in detail.
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ADVENTURES OF A MOUNTAIN
MAN
Zenas Leonard
Paperback......273 pp..........#1296..........$14.95
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Zenas Leonard's diary on
his activities, first as a free trapper, then as an employee of Captain B.L.E
Bonneville, was originally published in 1839. It covers his experiences from
1830-35, the halcyon days of the Rocky Mountain fur trade.
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THE BEAVER MEN
Mari Sandoz
Paperback..........335 pp..........#1434..........$17.95
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Mari Sandoz studies the entire
beaver trade, from its origins in 1630 along the Saint Lawrence to the last
rendezvous in 1834. The purpose in such a wide geographic scope is to approach
the subject from an ecological point of view.
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BENT'S FORT
David Lavender
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THE DISCOVERY OF THE OREGON TRAIL: Robert Stuart's Narratives
of His Overland Trip Eastward from Astoria in 1812-13
Philip
Ashton Rollins, Ed.; Introduction by Howard Lamar (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........535 pp..........illus., maps appendixes,
index..........#1336
$24.95
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Robert
Stuart saw the American West a few years after Lewis and Clark, and kept
a journal of his epic experience. A partner in John Jacob Astor's Pacific
Fur Company, the Scotsman shipped to Oregon in 1810 and helped found the
ill-fated settlement of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River. In 1812,
facing disaster, Stuart and six others slipped away from Astoria, and headed
East. His journal describes their hazardous 3,700 mile journey to St.
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EXPLORING THE AMERICAN WEST,
1803-1879
William H. Goetzmann
Paperback........125
pp..............#1186..........$7.50
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Including a brief historical
narrative of the events that lured men westward between 1803 and 1879, this
book describes the mountain men, explorers and scientists who helped in the
western expansion to the Pacific Ocean and presents a documented pictorial
record created by artists, cartographers and photographers who accompanied
the organized expeditions to the West.
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 FRONTIER DIPLOMATS:
The Life and Times of Alexander
Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksinaâ
Lesley Wischmann
(OCTA member)
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This extraordinary couple exerted great influence in the Indian
country on the Upper Missouri, the northern Plains and in the Rockies,
becoming the best âfrontier diplomatsâ of the times. The human
aspects of the fur trade are highlighted in this dual biography which challenges some conventional wisdom about the role of Indian women, the character
of the fur traders and the nature of the Blackfeet. |
THE FUR TRADE ON THE UPPER MISSOURI,
1840-1865
John E. Sunder, with foreword by Paul L.
Hedren
Paperback...........295 pp..............#1308............$21.95
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Set in the upper Missouri
country, which was bypassed by settlement until the 1860s, this book focuses
primarily upon the St. Louis firm of Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Company, usually
known as the American Fur Company. |
THE FUR
TRAPPERS AND TRADERS OF THE FAR
SOUTHWEST
Edited by LeRoy R. Hafen
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This book presents A view
of the Far Southwest fur trade and the trappers and traders involved in it
through twenty biographies selected from Hafen's ten-volume The Mountain
Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (1968-1972). |
GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE
HAWKS
Winfred Blevins
PB.....illus., appendices, bibliog....360
pp....#1330.....$17.95
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Great mountain man legends
told by one of America's best storytellers. He portrays the incredible lives
of such men as Jed Smith, Jim Bridger, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Bill Williams
telling the stories of their experiences rather than the political realities
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GREAT FUR TRADE ROAD: Discovery and Exploration
1739-1843
Fred R. Gowans (OCTA member), illus. by Debra L.
Eldredge
Paperback....11 x 14, spiral bound....210
pp.....#1184.....$49.95 p&h $6
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What was the historical setting
from which the Oregon Trail emerged in 1843? As the author examines the discovery
and exploration of this great overland road by the French, Spanish, British
and American explorers, it is apparent that large portions of the route first
existed as game trails and then were used by American Indians in their wanderings
for hundreds of years prior to European and American encroachment. This book
will show that by 1843 a great thoroughfare connecting the Missouri and Columbia
rivers had been established. There are 40 documents in the book, extending
from 1739-1843. Each document is divided into two parts. The first is an
examination of the historical data pertaining to each of the expeditions
traveling the great trail. The second contains journal entries providing
personal descriptions of the geographical landmarks along the overland route.
The journal entries have not been edited, but left as they were recorded
preserving the style of that era. Each document has a corresponding map
identifying the locations along the trail where each of the expeditions
traveled.
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JEDEDIAH SMITH AND THE OPENING OF THE
WEST
Dale L. Morgan
Paperback..........458 pp..........#1204...........$17.00
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Unlike most of the classic
mountain men, Smith was quiet, unassuming and deeply religious. He discovered
South Pass, was the first to reach California overland from the American
Frontier, and was first to cross the Sierra Nevada.
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JOE MEEK: The Merry Mountain
Man
Stanley Vestal
Paperback..........336 pp...........#1506..........$17.95
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At
nineteen, Joe Meek joined the Rocky Mountain Fur Company of Jedediah Smith
and headed west on an odyssey of hair-raising adventures.. After the Last
Rendezvous in 1840, he helped drive the first wagons to
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JOURNAL OF A MOUNTAIN MAN: JAMES
CLYMAN
Linda Hasselstrom, ed.
Paperback.........295 pp............#1175..........$17.95
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Clyman's journals
stand out in contrast to many of his contemporaries for the understatement
and precision. His encounters included Indians and emigrants, including the
Donner Party.
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MOUNTAIN MEN AND FUR TRADERS OF THE FAR
WEST
Leroy R. Hafen, ed.
Paperback............401
p..............#1261.................$15.95
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Brief
biographies of 18 mountain men and fur traders: Manual Lisa, Pierre Chouteau,
Jr., Wilson Price Hunt, William H. Ashley, Jedediah Smith, John McLoughlin,
Peter Skene Ogden, Ceran St. Vrain, Kit Carson, Old Bill Williams, William
Sublette, Thomas Fitzpatrick, James Bridger, Benjamin Bonneville, Joseph
Walker, Nathaniel Wyeth, Andrew Dripps and Joseph
Meek. |
SCOTTS BLUFF
Merrill J. Mattes (OCTA
Founder)
Paperback..............64 pp.............#1357..................$4.00
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This
book describes the early exploration of Scotts Bluff by fur traders and the
events that led to the Scotts Bluff National Monument in western Nebraska.
Also included is a guide to the area and suggested readings.
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WESTWARD VISION: The Story of the Oregon
Trail
David
Lavender
Paperback...........424 pp................#1238
$18.95
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Lavender
illustrated this vision that propelled the early exploration for a northwest
passage and sent trappers into the region charted by Lewis and
Clark. He describes the efforts of emigration
societies, missionaries and pioneer settlers plus the routes to the "Promised
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