The Chouteaus first family of the fur trade /
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.