The Chouteaus first family of the fur trade /

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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Threshold to an empire
  • Beyond the great river
  • War and peace on the Missouri
  • In a Spanish dungeon
  • Scions to the fore
  • Amid an Indian war
  • A frontier in havoc
  • The "Osage outfit"
  • VIPs at the Verdigris
  • Probing the plains
  • To the prairies unknown
  • Debt unto death
  • Steamboats "to the mountains"
  • A mile wide and six inches deep
  • Deadly cargoes : whiskey and cholera
  • Charles Chouteau at the helm
  • Passions of war
  • 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.