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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 Jacques Fournais, a French Canadian mountain man born in Quebec in the mid-1700s and exploring in Missouri by 1815, nicknamed "Old Pino." Description of his fur trapping career and early Kansas City residence, working with Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and Andrew Drips, retiring to Kansas City in 1845 in his cabin built about 1815 here, and dying in 1871, supposedly at the age of 124.
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Book