The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West /

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Story of the six brothers who came from Canada to Saint Louis, creating fur trading and Indian trading businesses, founding towns, exploring Missouri, and dealing in land.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Willoughby, Robert J., 1949-
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia [Mo.] : University of Missouri Press, 2012
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Robidou family.
Robidoux, Louis, > 1796-1868.
Robidoux, Antoine, > 1794-1860.
Robidoux, Joseph, > 1783-1863.
Trappers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Fur traders > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Fur traders > Missouri > Saint Louis > Biography.
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Saint Joseph (Mo.) > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The business of the father
  • Emerging sons
  • Working the Missouri
  • Into the mountains
  • Trouble at Council Bluffs
  • The Blacksnake Hills Post
  • Brothers in New Mexico
  • Joseph builds his own town
  • Dwindling prospects in the mountains
  • War and finding home
  • Queen City of the west
  • The end of their era
  • Epilogue.

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