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Among the Indians: Four Years on the Upper Missouri, 1858-1862 - Softcover

Boller, Henry A.

 
9780803257146: Among the Indians: Four Years on the Upper Missouri, 1858-1862
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803257147 ISBN 13: 9780803257146
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1972

Inhaltsangabe

Although the American Fur Company dominated the Upper Missouri fur trade during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a number of small, independent firms (known as the "Opposition") flourished briefly at this time.

From 1858 until 1862, a young Philadelphian, Henry A. Boller, was one of the Opposition traders, serving first as clerk in Clark, Primeau and Company and then as a partner in Larpenteur, Smith and Company. His account of these years, based on his journals, presents a remarkably realistic picture of the daily life of the Indian as he existed more than a century ago and is recognized as the "most authoritative narrative of fur-trading among the plains Indians of the Upper Missouri, for the period" (U.S.iana).

When it appeared in 1868, Boller's book was subtitled "Eight Years in the Far West, 1858-1866, Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake," and included descriptions of a return visit to Fort Berthold, the newly discovered Montana gold fields, and the Mormon capital. These concluding chapters are omitted in the present volume.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1972
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803257147
ISBN 13 
9780803257146
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
372
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