The Chouteaus : first family of the fur trade /

The Chouteaus : first family of the fur trade /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Hoig, Stan.
Imprint:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Subject:
Chouteau family.
Chouteau family.
Pioneers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography.
Fur traders -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography.
French Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography.
Businessmen -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography.
Fur trade -- Missouri River Valley -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Missouri River Valley.
Businessmen.
French Americans.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Fur trade.
Fur traders.
Pioneers.
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Biography.
Missouri River Valley -- Biography.
Missouri River Valley -- History.
Missouri River Valley.
Missouri -- Saint Louis.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11170523
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780826343499
082634349X
9780826343475
0826343473
1283889552
9781283889551
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-315) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary: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, a.
Other form:Print version: Hoig, Stan. Chouteaus. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008 9780826343475

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