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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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Portrait, illustrations, and chapter of the book about John Grey, "[n]oted primarily as an Iroquois leader and explorer" as Ignace Hatchiorauquasha and "[k]nown to his British associates as John Grey," a half-Indian fur trader settling in Kansas City about 1836. Description of his career, starting west for the Oregon Territory by 1816 from French Canada and discovering parts of Idaho and Wyoming in the 1820s before retiring in 1836 to the Westport and Independence area, joining Francois Chouteau and Andrew Drips and building a house in the West Bottoms "just west of later Mulberry Street about as close to the Indian country as he could put it," then traveling with Father Pierre Jean DeSmet in 1841 and dying some time before the flood of 1844, wiping out his widow's home, forcing her to move to Fort Scott, Kansas, after 1850.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Book