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Chargement... French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American Westpar LeRoy R. Hafen
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"Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance," writes Janet Lecompte in her introduction to French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West. They were the first to navigate the Mississippi and its tributaries, and they founded St. Louis and New Orleans. Though France lost her North American possessions in 1763, thousands of her natives remained on the continent. Many of them were voyageurs for Hudson's Bay Company, whose descendants would join American fur trade companies plying the trans-Mississippi West. This volume documents the fact that in the nineteenth century Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. Twenty-two biographies, collected from LeRoy R. Hafen's classic ten-volume The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, represent a variety of origins and social classes, types of work, and trading areas. Here are trappers who joined John Jacob Astor's ill-fated fur venture on the Pacific, St. Louis traders who hauled goods to Spanish New Mexico along the Santa Fe Trail, and those who traded with Indians in the western plains and mountains. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is a reprinting of an older collection and the pieces are written in a folksy style free of sociological editorializing. While it is impossible to conceive of any reputable historian using this manner today, I can't help but think that the figures chronicled here would recognize themselves more clearly in these texts than they would in the thickets of jargon that plague much of contemporary historiography. ( )