Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur TradeUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 23.9.2002 - 322 sivua In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. Barton H. Barbour is Professor of History at Boise State University and author of Jedidiah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press. |
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The Construction of Fort Union | 39 |
Artists Scientists Explorers and Missionaries at Fort Union | 66 |
Fort Unions Society | 109 |
Fur Traders Trade and Intercourse Laws and Indian Policy | 147 |
Masters of the Country? | 176 |
The Decline of Fort Union | 204 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliographical Essay | 281 |
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AFCO Alexander Culbertson Alfred Cumming American Fur Company American Fur Trade annuity Arikaras arrived Assiniboines Astor Audubon bastions Benton bison Blackfeet Bodmer bourgeois house Cabanné Catlin Chardon Charles Larpenteur Chittenden Chouteau & Company Chouteau Collection Clark Commissioner of Indian Company's Coues Crow Dakota Edwin Denig employees engagés federal Fort Benton Fort Pierre Fort Union fort's Forts frontier Fur Trade Fur Trade Ledgers Geowey Harvey Hewitt Historical Society History Hubbell Hunt Ibid Indian Affairs Indian agents Indian country Indian policy Indian Tribes James John July June Kenneth McKenzie Kurz Journal Larpenteur MS Journals later Leclerc liquor Mandan March Maximilian McKenzie's military Minnesota missionaries Missouri River mixed-blood MnHS Mountain native North NWFCo palisades Pierre Chouteau Ramsay Crooks Red River Saint Louis Sioux Smet soldiers Steamboat steamer Sublette Tecumseh thousand dollars trading posts treaty U.S. Congress Vaughn West Western whiskey William wrote Yellowstone York
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