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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 Charles Warfield, a western trader and "raider" moving from New Orleans to the Rocky Mountains by the early 1830s largely responsible for "three nations, Texas, Mexico, and the United States, to dispatch sizeable armed forces along the Santa Fe Trail."
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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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Major John Dougherty
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Description
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Chapter about Major John Dougherty (1789-1860), "an honorary 'major' by virtue of his role as Indian agent," a native of Kentucky and resident upon retirement of Liberty, Missouri. Photo and description of his career in western exploration and Indian relations, starting in 1809 with Manuel Lisa and including the co-establishment of the "first American fort on Pacific drainage, in 1811," dealings with Sacajawea, William Ashley, Joseph Robidoux, et al., moving to Liberty in 1855 and building his estate called "Multnomah," and "leaving his freighting and sutlering affairs to Lewis" B. Dougherty, his son.
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Date
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1965/1972
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Object Type
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Book Section
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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
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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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Fort Davy Crockett, Its Fur Men and Visitors
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Description
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Article about the history of Fort Davy Crockett, a fur trading post in northwest Colorado in the 1830s. Several fur traders, mountain men, and other visitors of the area of the fort are described from the 1820s to the 1840s, many also relating to travel west on the Oregon Trail. Independence, Missouri, is also mentioned as a jumping off point for western expeditions. The fort is described as a "primitive mart" for fur trade, owned by Philip Thompson, William Craig, and Pruett Sinclair, and abandoned by 1840.
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Date
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1952-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
