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Across the Wide Missouri 1947 First Ed. by Bernard DeVoto


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Across the Wide Missouri 1947 First Ed. by Bernard DeVoto

 
 Across the Wide Missouri 1947 First Ed. by Bernard DeVoto  Across the Wide Missouri 1947 First Ed. by Bernard DeVoto  Across the Wide Missouri 1947 First Ed. by Bernard DeVoto  Across the Wide Missouri 1947 First Ed. by Bernard DeVoto  Across the Wide Missouri 1947 First Ed. by Bernard DeVoto  Across the Wide Missouri 1947 First Ed. by Bernard DeVoto

Across the Wide Missouri 1947 First Ed. by Bernard DeVoto   



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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston (1947)
Approx. size: 9.5" x 7" x 2" --  483 pages

Illustrated with Paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer and George Caitlin. With an Account of the Discovery of the Miller Collection by Mare Reed Porter.

Across the Wide Missouri is a history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the American West in the Upper Missouri River basin during its peak in the 1830s. It focuses on the Rocky Mountain Fur Company (RMFC), which competed with John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company and the Hudson's Bay Company by setting up an annual summer trade rendezvous supplied by overland wagon train in a different mountain valley every year instead of using fixed trading posts.

This is the story of the mountain men in the climactic years 1833-38, with special focus on the expedition headed by a Scottish sportsman, William Drummond Stewart, who had the foresight to take with him a talented young artist,
Alfred Jacob Miller - and thereby brought back a unique pictorial history of the early West. Pulitzer Prize Winner!

 No jacket. HC. Tan cloth covers. Good with very good interior. Slightly bumped corners. Some spotting to closed page ends. Outer front cover shows a mild water stain mark.

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