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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Chapter of the book about Toussaint Charbonneau, an Indian translator on the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806, husband of Sacajawea, and father of their son, Baptiste Charbonneau, later another Indian translator. Descriptions of Toussaint as "something of a Lothario," working for Manual Lisa in 1811 as interpreter and fur trader with his Indian wife Sacajawea (probably dying in 1812), and working until the 1830s as an Indian agent before dying around 1840.
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1972
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Chapter of the book about Alexander Carson (ca. 1775-1836), a fur trapper of "almost every fur-bearing region west of the Mississippi," supposedly entering the Rocky Mountains with Lewis and Clark in 1804, working for fur companies including that of John Jacob Astor starting in the 1810s in Oregon and Washington, and a victim of many Indian attacks, including a fatal one in Oregon in 1836.
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1972
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Official Manual: State of Missouri, 1971-1972
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Illustration and biographical sketch of Susan Elizabeth Blow, or Susan Blow, the founder of kindergarten schools in the United States, bringing the idea from Germany to Saint Louis in the 1870s, initially working without pay in children's education.
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1972
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Feline Exhibit Construction Site Sign
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Full view of a sign indicating the proposed site for a new feline exhibit at the Kansas City Zoo. Designer E. F. Corwin, Jr. received an award for his work on this and other signs put in place by the Kansas City, Missouri Parks and Recreation Department on park property under construction.
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1972
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Photograph
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Photo and chapter of the book about Robert Meldrum (~1802-1865), a fur trapper in the Rocky Mountains by the 1820s and with William Ashley starting in 1827, becoming "one of the American Fur Company's chief traders working with the Crows [Crow Indians]" in the 1850s.
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1972
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Photo and bio of Robert Stuart (1785-1848), a Scottish fur trader emigrating to Canada in 1807 as "an agent for the North West Company" in his uncle David Stuart's company before joining the 1810 Wilson Price Hunt expedition to Oregon Territory, working for the John Jacob Astor fur business through the 1820s, and becoming state treasurer and superintendent of Indian affairs in Michigan.
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1972
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Chapter of the book about David Jackson, a fur trader on William Ashley's expedition "up the Missouri River in April 1822." He was born in the late 1700s and entered the Indian trade in the 1810s in Missouri Territory. He worked with fellow Santa Fe traders and Rocky Mountain explorers William Sublette, Jedediah Smith, David Waldo, et al., until his death in 1837, becoming the namesake of Jackson Hole and Jackson Lake in Wyoming.
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1972
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