ISBN: 9780803273023

“Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance," writes Janet Lecompte in her introduction to Fr… Mehr…

“Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance," writes Janet Lecompte in her introduction to French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West. They were the first to navigate the Mississippi and its tributaries, and they founded St. Louis and New Orleans. Though France lost her North American possessions in 1763, thousands of her natives remained on the continent. Many of them were voyageurs for Hudson’s Bay Company, whose descendants would join American fur trade companies plying the trans-Mississippi West. This volume documents the fact that in the nineteenth century Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. Twenty-two biographies, collected from LeRoy R. Hafen’s classic ten-volume The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, represent a variety of origins and social classes, types of work, and trading areas. Here are trappers who joined John Jacob Astor’s ill-fated fur venture on the Pacific, St. Louis traders who hauled goods to Spanish New Mexico along the Santa Fe Trail, and those who traded with Indians in the western plains and mountains. | French Fur Traders And Voyageurs In The American West by Janet Lecompte Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > History > North American History > United States > Modern P10103, Janet Lecompte<

ISBN: 9780803273023

“Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance,” writes Janet Lecompte in her introd… Mehr…

“Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance,” writes Janet Lecompte in her introduction to French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West. They were the first to navigate the Mississippi and its tributaries, and they founded St. Louis and New Orleans. Though France lost her North American possessions in 1763, thousands of her natives remained on the continent. Many of them were voyageurs for Hudson’s Bay Company, whose descendants would join American fur trade companies plying the trans-Mississippi West. This volume documents the fact that in the nineteenth century Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. Twenty-two biographies, collected from LeRoy R. Hafen’s classic ten-volume The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, represent a variety of origins and social classes, types of work, and trading areas. Here are trappers who joined John Jacob Astor’s ill-fated fur venture on the Pacific, St. Louis traders who hauled goods to Spanish New Mexico along the Santa Fe Trail, and those who traded with Indians in the western plains and mountains. Books > History > North American History > United States > Modern List_Books, [PU: University of Nebraska Press]<

ISBN: 9780803273023

Documents the fact that in the nineteenth century, Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. This book contains twenty-two biographies collected from the ten-volume 'The Mou… Mehr…

Documents the fact that in the nineteenth century, Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. This book contains twenty-two biographies collected from the ten-volume 'The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade in the Far West', which represent a variety of origins and social classes, types of work, and trading areas. Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher 227 x 152 x 20 mm , University of Nebraska Press, Taschenbuch, University of Nebraska Press<

ISBN: 9780803273023

Paperback, [PU: University of Nebraska Press], Documents the fact that in the nineteenth century, Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. This book contains twenty-two bio… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: University of Nebraska Press], Documents the fact that in the nineteenth century, Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. This book contains twenty-two biographies collected from the ten-volume "The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade in the Far West", which represent a variety of origins and social classes, types of work, and trading areas., Social & Cultural History<