Download or read book Fort Union and Its Neighbors on the Upper Missouri written by Frank B. Harper and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fort Union and Its Neighbors on the Upper Missouri written by Frank B. Harper and published by [U.S.A.] : Great Northern Railway. This book was released on 1925 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade written by Barton H. Barbour and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. Barton H. Barbour is Professor of History at Boise State University and author of Jedidiah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Download or read book Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors written by W. Raymond Wood and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitors—among them the German prince-explorer Maximilian of Wied, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, and American painter-author George Catlin—have long been the primary sources of information on the cultures of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, the peoples who met the first fur traders in the area. This book, by a team of anthropologists, is the first thorough account of the fur trade at Fort Clark to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record. The Mandans built a village in about 1822 near the site of what would become Fort Clark; after the 1837 smallpox epidemic that decimated them, the village was occupied by Arikaras until they abandoned it in 1862. Because it has never been plowed, the site of Fort Clark and the adjacent Mandan/Arikara village are rich in archaeological information. The authors describe the environmental and cultural setting of the fort (named after William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition), including the social profile of the fur traders who lived there. They also chronicle the histories of the Mandans and the Arikaras before and during the occupation of the post and the village. The authors conclude by assessing the results—published here for the first time—of the archaeological program that investigated the fort and adjacent Indian villages at Fort Clark State Historic Site. By vividly depicting the conflict and cooperation in and around the fort, this book reveals the various cultures’ interdependence.

Download or read book The Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reconstructing Fort Union written by John Austin Matzko and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the Crow-Flies-High band of Hidatsa, who lived on the site in the late nineteenth century; here is the "wild west" town of Mondak, founded in 1904 to peddle alcohol to North Dakotans; and here are the Park Service personnel, whose mission to preserve what is left of the historic fort puts them in direct conflict with civic leaders who want the entire site reconstructed to draw more tourists. Matzko chronicles the struggle, with all the political plays, bureaucratic snags, and chance twists that led to the reconstructionists' victory - and to one of the largest archaeological excavations ever mounted by the National Park Service.

Download or read book Minnesota History written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.

Download or read book Minnesota History Bulletin written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 2-6 include the 19th-23d Biennial reports of the Society, 1915/16-1923/24 (in v. 2-3 as supplements, in v. 4-6 as extra numbers).

Download or read book The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri 1840 1865 written by John E. Sunder and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By beginning where the standard works leave off and carrying the story up to its logical conclusion in 1865, this book fills a definite void in the history of the fur trade in the American West. Set in the upper Missouri country, which was bypassed by settlement until the 1860s, it focuses primarily upon the St. Louis firm of Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and Company, usually known as the American Fur Company....This is not the distorted and romanticized approach so typical of much of the literature on the earlier fur trade. Drama is inherent, but it is sound, well-conceived, carefully documented history."-American Historical Review

Download or read book An Outline of the History of the Pacific Northwest with Special Reference to Washington written by Ceylon Samuel Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript "An Outline of the Pacific Northwest" by Ceylon Kingston, 90 pp, circa 1920-1926. Author's working copy.

Download or read book Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society written by Illinois State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Preliminary Bibliography on the American Fur Trade written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Totem Poles of Alaska and Indian Mythology written by Lloyd W. MacDowell and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Modern Growth of the Totem Pole on the Northwest Coast written by Marius Barbeau and published by Shorey's Bookstore. This book was released on 1965 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Petroglyphs of the United States written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clay Tobacco Pipes and the Fur Trade of the Pacific Northwest and Northern Plains written by Michael A. Pfeiffer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clay tobacco pipes are a unique form of artifact that has been recovered from the earliest colonial period sites to those of the early twentieth century. Archaeologists have found this artifact category useful for interpretive purposes due to their rapid technological and typological change, decoration, and maker's marks. Lack of adequate reporting in older site reports precludes a wide range of interpretive values intrinsic to this artifact category. A detailed study of tobacco pipe assemblages from the Pacific Northwest and Northern Plains, in an 1800 to 1890s time frame, demonstrates the interpretive value of this category on an intrasite, regional, and interregional basis. The detailed analysis given the pipes and pipe assemblages provides a historical background that encompasses the artifacts, the manufacturers, the sites, the relationships of the sites, and their place in the development of these regions. These tobacco pipes reflect the marketing and trade histories of these regions as well as many of the cultural subgroups.