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1) Buckskin entrepreneur : Antoine Robidoux and the fur trade of the Uinta Basin 1824-1844

Author

Barton, John D

Publisher

Oakfield Pub. Co

Pub. Date

1996

Language

English

2) Across the wide Missouri

Author

De Voto, Bernard Augustine

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Language

English

Description

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The story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s.

3) Preacher's fire

Author

Johnstone, William W

Series

First mountain man series volume 16

Publisher

Pinnacle Books

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Preacher shaves his beard and poses as a greedy bumpkin from Ohio in order to confront Shad Beaumont, who is using fear and violence to take over the Western fur trade with the assistance of an army of hired gunmen.

4) A majority of scoundrels: an informal history of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company

Author

Berry, Don

Publisher

Comstock Editions

Pub. Date

1977, c1961

Language

English

5) Give your heart to the hawks: a tribute to the mountain men

Author

Blevins, Winfred

Language

English

Description

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Recounts the stories of the men and events representative of the period of the mountain men in American history, arranged chronologically from the early to the mid-1800s.

6) The adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A. in the Rocky Mountains and the far West

Author

Irving, Washington

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

7) Company of adventurers

Author

Newman, Peter Charles

Publisher

Viking Penguin

Pub. Date

1987, c1985

Language

English

8) The American fur trade of the Far West: a history of pioneer trading posts & early fur companies of the Missouri Valley & Rocky Mountains & of the overland commerce with Santa Fe

Author

Chittenden, Hiram Martin

Series

Library of early American business and industry 61

Publisher

A. M. Kelley

Pub. Date

1976

Language

English

9) The fur trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865

Author

Sunder, John E

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Pub. Date

c1965 (1993 printing)

Language

English

10) Jedediah Smith and the opening of the West

Author

Morgan, Dale Lowell

Series

A Bison book volume BB184

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Pub. Date

[1964, c1953]

Language

English

11) The American Fur Company : the final years

Author

Clayton, James LeRoy, 1931

Publisher

University Microfilms

Pub. Date

1992

Language

English

12) The Taos trappers: the fur trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846

Author

Weber, David J

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Pub. Date

c1971.

Edition

New ed.

Language

English

13) Trappers of the Far West: sixteen biographical sketches

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Pub. Date

1983

Edition

1st Bison book ed.

Language

English

Description

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Includes brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade.

14) The mountain men and the fur trade of the Far West: biographical sketches of the participants by scholars of the subject and with introductions by the editor

Publisher

Arthur H. Clark Co

Pub. Date

2000, c1965

Language

English

15) The fur hunters of the far West

Author

Ross, Alexander

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Pub. Date

1956

Language

English

16) To the river's end

Author

Johnstone, William W

Series

Jake Ransom, man of the mountains volume 1
Jake Ransom man of the mountains volume 1
Kensington western

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, Large Print

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"Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile...