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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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The legendary mountain men—the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth centu
Trappers of the Far West
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the
Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward from a depot
The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Language: en
Pages: 406
Authors: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Categories: Fur trade
Type: BOOK - Published: 1965 - Publisher:

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French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West
Language: en
Pages: 110
Authors: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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?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 Lecompt