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Title
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Description
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Photo (of an ad for Vasquez's store) and chapter of the book about Auguste Pike Vasquez, or Pike Vasquez (1813-1869), a western trader, son of Antoine Vasquez, and "grandson of Benito Vasquez, who had come to St. Louis from Spain in 1770." Raised partly in Saint Louis and moving to the later site of Kansas City in 1926 with his father, "agent for the Kansas Indians" until 1829, then becoming a Rocky Mountain fur trader with his uncle Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette in the 1830s, establishing Fort Vasquez and returning to Westport briefly in the 1860s.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Description
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Chapter of the book about Antoine Francois "Baronet" Vasquez, or Antoine Vasquez (1783-1828), an "interpreter for Zebulon Pike's expedition to the sources of the Arkansas in 1806," War of 1812 veteran (fighting in the Battle of Tippecanoe), and Indian agent and trader in the Rocky Mountains, born and dying in Saint Louis and traveling around the West and Midwest.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Book