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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 Russel Farnham (1784-1832), an explorer of the Oregon Territory starting in 1810 as "one of the thirty-three Astorians," a native of Massachusetts. Description of his career, crossing all of Asia and Europe from 1814 to 1816 for his employer, John Jacob Astor, and later operating in the Midwestern United States and residing in Saint Charles, Missouri.
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Date
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1972
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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 Lemuel Carpenter (1807-1859), a mountain man with scantly recorded activities but with a "typical Mountain Man pattern--a native of Kentucky, a sometime resident of Missouri, and a 'foreigner' in Santa Fe." Description of his career, starting with arrival in California in the early 1830s from New Mexico, success in the Mexican culture until financial failure of the 1850s after the Gold Rush.
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Date
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1972
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Spencer Sciences Buildings
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Description
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Partial view of the Kenneth A. Spencer Chemical and Biological Sciences Buildings at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC). Kivett & Myers received an award for the design of these buildings, with sculptural fenestration that relates to their purposes and the surrounding areas.
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Date
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1972
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Object Type
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Photograph
