French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West: Twenty-five Biographical Sketches

by JanetLecompte (Introduction), Le Roy R. Hafen (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $42.02

  Documents the fact that in the nineteenth century, Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. This book contains twenty-two biographies collected from the ten-volume The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade in the Far West , which represent a variety of origins and social classes, types of work, and trading areas.