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Across the wide Missouri / by Bernard DeVoto ; illustrated with paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer and George Catlin ; with an account of the discovery of the Miller collection by Mae Reed Porter.

Summary:

The story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s.

Record details

  • Physical Description: xxvii, 483 pages, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Bonanza Books, �1947.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-468) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The prairie traveler (1833) -- The brass knuckles (1832) -- Massacre : sport and business (1832) -- Paul Bunyan's fair (1833) -- Absaroka (1833) -- The theme of wonder (1833-1834) -- The winter lodge -- To men benighted (1834) -- Parable of the Samaritan (1835) -- The Meridian Passage (1836) -- The conqueror (1837) -- A painter on the trail (1837) -- Away, you rolling river (1838) -- Appendices: Chronology of the mountain fur trade -- The first illustrators of the west -- Notes.
Subject:
Fur trade > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > History > To 1848.
Fur trade.
United States, West.
Genre:
History.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library F 592 .D48 1947 269361 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library History #53 276650 Deloria Collection Available -

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24510. ‡aAcross the wide Missouri / ‡cby Bernard DeVoto ; illustrated with paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer and George Catlin ; with an account of the discovery of the Miller collection by Mae Reed Porter.
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504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 457-468) and index.
5050 . ‡aThe prairie traveler (1833) -- The brass knuckles (1832) -- Massacre : sport and business (1832) -- Paul Bunyan's fair (1833) -- Absaroka (1833) -- The theme of wonder (1833-1834) -- The winter lodge -- To men benighted (1834) -- Parable of the Samaritan (1835) -- The Meridian Passage (1836) -- The conqueror (1837) -- A painter on the trail (1837) -- Away, you rolling river (1838) -- Appendices: Chronology of the mountain fur trade -- The first illustrators of the west -- Notes.
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