The Chouteaus [electronic resource] : first family of the fur trade / Stan Hoig.

By: Hoig, StanContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008Description: xi, 337 p. : ill., maps, portsISBN: 9780826343499 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Chouteau family | Pioneers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography | Fur traders -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography | French Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography | Businessmen -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography | Fur trade -- Missouri River Valley -- History | Frontier and pioneer life -- Missouri River Valley | Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Biography | Missouri River Valley -- Biography | Missouri River Valley -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 977.8/6600922 | B LOC classification: F474.S253 | A245 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Threshold to an empire -- Beyond the great river -- War and peace on the Missouri -- In a Spanish dungeon -- Scions to the fore -- Amid an Indian war -- A frontier in havoc -- The "Osage outfit" -- VIPs at the Verdigris -- Probing the plains -- To the prairies unknown -- Debt unto death -- Steamboats "to the mountains" -- A mile wide and six inches deep -- Deadly cargoes : whiskey and cholera -- Charles Chouteau at the helm -- Passions of war -- Requiems in retrospect -- Addendum : the Chouteau women -- Appendix A : Chouteau families and Osage offspring -- Appendix B : Chouteau-related trading posts -- Appendix C : Chouteau-involved Indian treaties.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index.

Threshold to an empire -- Beyond the great river -- War and peace on the Missouri -- In a Spanish dungeon -- Scions to the fore -- Amid an Indian war -- A frontier in havoc -- The "Osage outfit" -- VIPs at the Verdigris -- Probing the plains -- To the prairies unknown -- Debt unto death -- Steamboats "to the mountains" -- A mile wide and six inches deep -- Deadly cargoes : whiskey and cholera -- Charles Chouteau at the helm -- Passions of war -- Requiems in retrospect -- Addendum : the Chouteau women -- Appendix A : Chouteau families and Osage offspring -- Appendix B : Chouteau-related trading posts -- Appendix C : Chouteau-involved Indian treaties.

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