The Chouteaus [electronic resource] : first family of the fur trade / Stan Hoig
- Author
- Hoig, Stan
- Published
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xi, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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- Contents
- 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.
- 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—History
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780826343475 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index.
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