The Chouteaus

Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082634349X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chouteaus written by Stan Hoig and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chouteaus and the Indian Trade of the West, 1764-1852 written by Abraham Phineas Nasatir and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shirley Christian
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803225244
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before Lewis and Clark written by Shirley Christian and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William E. Foley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068973
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Chouteaus written by William E. Foley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chouteaus and the Founding of Salina, Oklahoma's First White Settlement, 1796 written by Vinson Lackey and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carrie Westlake Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kansas City, Missouri written by Carrie Westlake Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Perl Wilbur Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Wyandotte County, Kansas written by Perl Wilbur Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Emerson Twitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leading Facts of New Mexican History written by Ralph Emerson Twitchell and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles P. Deatherage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.8K/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early history from October 12, 1492, to 1870 written by Charles P. Deatherage and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles P. Deatherage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early History of Greater Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas written by Charles P. Deatherage and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: