Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 (Bison Book S.)

by Milo Milton Quaife (Introduction), Charles Larpenteur (Author), Milo Milton Quaife (Introduction), Charles Larpenteur (Author), Paul L. Hedren (Introduction)

• New

  Paperback
  1989

  $28.69

  For forty years, as a company man and as an independent agent, Charles Larpenteur would ply the fur trade on the upper Missouri River. Based on Larpenteur's daily journals, this memoir describes the business side and social milieu of the fur trade conducted from wintering houses and subposts in the Indian country.