Author: Vinson Lackey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Chouteaus and the Founding of Salina, Oklahoma's First White Settlement, 1796
Author: Vinson Lackey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Chouteaus
Author: Stan Hoig
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082634349X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
In the late eighteenth century, the vast, pristine land that lay west of the Mississippi River remained largely unknown to the outside world. The area beckoned to daring frontiersmen who produced the first major industry of the American West--the colorful but challenging, often dangerous fur trade. At the lead was an enterprising French Creole family that founded the city of St. Louis in 1763 and pushed forth to garner furs for world markets. Stan Hoig provides an intimate look into the lives of four generations of the Chouteau family as they voyaged up the Western rivers to conduct trade, at times taking wives among the native tribes. They provided valuable aid to the Lewis and Clark expedition and assisted government officials in developing Indian treaties. National leaders, tribal heads, and men of frontier fame sought their counsel. In establishing their network of trading posts and opening trade routes throughout the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, the Chouteaus contributed enormously to the nation's westward movement.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082634349X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
In the late eighteenth century, the vast, pristine land that lay west of the Mississippi River remained largely unknown to the outside world. The area beckoned to daring frontiersmen who produced the first major industry of the American West--the colorful but challenging, often dangerous fur trade. At the lead was an enterprising French Creole family that founded the city of St. Louis in 1763 and pushed forth to garner furs for world markets. Stan Hoig provides an intimate look into the lives of four generations of the Chouteau family as they voyaged up the Western rivers to conduct trade, at times taking wives among the native tribes. They provided valuable aid to the Lewis and Clark expedition and assisted government officials in developing Indian treaties. National leaders, tribal heads, and men of frontier fame sought their counsel. In establishing their network of trading posts and opening trade routes throughout the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, the Chouteaus contributed enormously to the nation's westward movement.
Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829-1833
Author: Jack Dwain Gregory
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is a lively effort to pierce the thick fog of Falsehood, calumny, ignorance, and legend surrounding the four years Sam Houston spent among the Cherokees in what is now northeastern Oklahoma, the broken years in Tennessee, and his advent in Texas on the eve of the War for Independence.–Virginia Quarterly Review
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is a lively effort to pierce the thick fog of Falsehood, calumny, ignorance, and legend surrounding the four years Sam Houston spent among the Cherokees in what is now northeastern Oklahoma, the broken years in Tennessee, and his advent in Texas on the eve of the War for Independence.–Virginia Quarterly Review
French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West
Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803273023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
?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. ø 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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803273023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
?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. ø 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.
Exploring Oklahoma Highways
Author: Michael Heim
Publisher: Exploring America's Highway
ISBN: 9780977730124
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher: Exploring America's Highway
ISBN: 9780977730124
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Chronicles of Oklahoma
Author: James Shannon Buchanan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Founding St. Louis
Author: J. Frederick Fausz
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614233829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The animal wealth of the western "wilderness" provided by talented "savages" encouraged French-Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to found a cosmopolitan center of international commerce that was a model of multicultural harmony. Historian J. Frederick Fausz offers a fresh interpretation of Saint Louis from 1764 to 1804, explaining how Pierre Lacl de, the early Chouteaus, Saint Ange de Bellerive and the Osage Indians established a "gateway" to an enlightened, alternative frontier of peace and prosperity before Lewis and Clark were even born. Historians, genealogists and general readers will appreciate the well-researched perspectives in this engaging story about a novel French West long ignored in American History.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614233829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The animal wealth of the western "wilderness" provided by talented "savages" encouraged French-Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to found a cosmopolitan center of international commerce that was a model of multicultural harmony. Historian J. Frederick Fausz offers a fresh interpretation of Saint Louis from 1764 to 1804, explaining how Pierre Lacl de, the early Chouteaus, Saint Ange de Bellerive and the Osage Indians established a "gateway" to an enlightened, alternative frontier of peace and prosperity before Lewis and Clark were even born. Historians, genealogists and general readers will appreciate the well-researched perspectives in this engaging story about a novel French West long ignored in American History.
The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Oklahoma state history
Author:
Publisher: In the Hands of a Child
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Publisher: In the Hands of a Child
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
A Standard History of Oklahoma
Author: Joseph Bradfield Thoburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description