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Article: The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri: 1840-1865.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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The new printing of John E. Sunder's 1965 study of the upper Missouri River fur trade is worthwhile. For what he attempts to do, Sunder's scholarship is impeccable. Each fur frontier season between 1840 and 1865 is recorded in chronological sequence, with primary focus on the St. Louis-based Piere Chouteau, Jr., and Company known as the American Fur Company). There is a wide variety of attendant actors and actions. Rival companies come and go. Steamboats are sent up and down the three thousand miles of the Missouri from St. Louis to present western Montana. Trading posts are founded, run, and then abandoned. Perhaps three million buffalo hides and an assortment of other ...
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