Chouteaus : First Family of the Fur Trade.
Title:
Chouteaus : First Family of the Fur Trade.
Author:
Hoig, Stan.
ISBN:
9780826343499
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (351 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1: Threshold to an Empire -- 2: Beyond the Great River -- 3: War and Peace on the Missouri -- 4: In a Spanish Dungeon -- 5: Scions to the Fore -- 6: Amid an Indian War -- 7: A Frontier in Havoc -- 8: The "Osage Outfit" -- 9: VIPs at the Verdigris -- 10: Probing the Plains -- 11: To the Prairies Unknown -- 12: Debt unto Death -- 13: Steamboats "to the Mountains" -- 14: A Mile Wide and Six Inches Deep -- 15: Deadly Cargoes: Whiskey and Cholera -- 16: Charles Chouteau at the Helm -- 17: Passions of War -- 18: Requiems in Retrospect -- Addendum: The Chouteau Women -- Appendix A: Chouteau Families and Osage Offspring -- Appendix B: Chouteau-Related Trading Posts -- Appendix C: Chouteau-Involved Indian Treaties -- Notes -- Biblbliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
The story of the family that founded St. Louis and contributed to opening the West to American expansion.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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