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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Willoughby, Robert J., 1949-
Collectivité auteur: Project Muse
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Columbia [Mo.] : University of Missouri Press, 2012
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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