The Chouteaus
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Author | : Stan Hoig |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2010-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082634349X |
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In the late eighteenth century, the vast, pristine land that lay west of the Mississippi River remained largely unknown to the outside world. The area beckoned to daring frontiersmen who produced the first major industry of the American West--the colorful but challenging, often dangerous fur trade. At the lead was an enterprising French Creole family that founded the city of St. Louis in 1763 and pushed forth to garner furs for world markets. Stan Hoig provides an intimate look into the lives of four generations of the Chouteau family as they voyaged up the Western rivers to conduct trade, at times taking wives among the native tribes. They provided valuable aid to the Lewis and Clark expedition and assisted government officials in developing Indian treaties. National leaders, tribal heads, and men of frontier fame sought their counsel. In establishing their network of trading posts and opening trade routes throughout the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, the Chouteaus contributed enormously to the nation's westward movement.
Author | : Abraham Phineas Nasatir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Fur trade |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stan Hoig |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0826343473 |
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In the late 18th century, the vast land that lay west of the Mississippi River beckoned to daring frontiersmen, who produced the first major industry of the American West--the challenging, often dangerous fur trade. Stan Hoig provides an intimate look into the lives of four generations of the Chouteau family as they voyaged up the Western rivers to conduct trade.
Author | : William E. Foley |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252068973 |
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For more than half a century, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau dominated trade and enterprise in the Mississippi Valley. In their various roles as merchants, Indian traders, bankers, land speculators, governmental advisors, public officials, and community leaders, the Chouteau brothers exerted a tremendous influence on westward expansion. This is the first full account of their lives and illustrious careers.
Author | : Vinson Lackey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Oklahoma |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Shirley Christian |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803225244 |
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Before Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generations. From their St. Louis base, the Chouteaus, patrician and French in their origins, made their fortunes along the two-thousand-mile length of the Missouri River. Led by the brothers Auguste and Pierre, the family not only engaged in land speculation, finance, and the fur trade but also acted as suppliers and advisers to expeditions and enterprises between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains?including the famous expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806. This is the story of the Old World meeting the New, of the eastern United States discovering the West, and of a wealthy, powerful, charming, and manipulative family that dominated business and politics in the Louisiana Purchase territory before and after the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Author | : Carrie Westlake Whitney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Kansas City (Mo.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Perl Wilbur Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Wyandotte County (Kan.) |
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Author | : Ralph Emerson Twitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 892 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : New Mexico |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles P. Deatherage |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Kansas City Region (Mo. and Kan.) |
ISBN | : |
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