Bill Sublette: Mountain Man - Couverture souple

Sunder, John E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806111119 ISBN 13 : 9780806111117

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1973

Synopsis

Bill Sublette (1799-1845) led two lives. Renowned as a hardy mountain man, he ranged the Missouri, Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Sweetwater River country between 1823 and 1833 hunting beaver, fighting Indians, and unwittingly opening the West for settlers (he proved that wagons could be used effectively on the Oregon Trail). Financial success and silk hats, which strangled the fur trade, later forced him to a less adventuresome life in St. Louis as a gentleman farmer, businessman, and politician.

Not only did Sublette help develop the rendezvous system in the fur trade and blaze the first wagon trail through South pass, but also he established what was later Fort Laramie, was a participant in laying the foundation for present Kansas City, and left a large fortune to excite envy and exaggeration, One of the most successful fur merchants of the West, he also helped to break John Jacob Astor's monopoly of the trade.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John E. Sunder was the author of The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 and Joshua Pilcher, Fur Trader and Indian Agent and editor of Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806111119
• ISBN 13: 9780806111117
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
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