TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoig,Stan
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The Chouteaus: first family of the fur trade 
AV  - F474.S253 A245 2008eb
U1  - 977.8/6600922B 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Albuquerque
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Chouteau family.
KW  - Pioneers
KW  - Missouri
KW  - Saint Louis
KW  - Biography
KW  - Fur traders
KW  - French Americans
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - Fur trade
KW  - Missouri River Valley
KW  - History
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Saint Louis (Mo.)
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index; Threshold to an empire -- Beyond the great river -- War and peace on the Missouri -- In a Spanish dungeon -- Scions to the fore -- Amid an Indian war -- A frontier in havoc -- The "Osage outfit" -- VIPs at the Verdigris -- Probing the plains -- To the prairies unknown -- Debt unto death -- Steamboats "to the mountains" -- A mile wide and six inches deep -- Deadly cargoes : whiskey and cholera -- Charles Chouteau at the helm -- Passions of war -- Requiems in retrospect -- Addendum : the Chouteau women -- Appendix A : Chouteau families and Osage offspring -- Appendix B : Chouteau-related trading posts -- Appendix C : Chouteau-involved Indian treaties; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10639523
ER  -