The Chouteaus [electronic resource] : first family of the fur trade / Stan Hoig.
By: Hoig, Stan.
Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm).
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BookPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008Description: xi, 337 p. : ill., maps, ports.Subject(s): 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 | Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Biography | Missouri River Valley -- Biography | Missouri River Valley -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 977.8/6600922 | B Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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