Historical Documentation
Primary sources of documentation
A Wisconsin Fur-Trader's Journal, 1803-04 | Luttig journal of a fur trading expedition on Upper Missouri |
California Trail A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado By Stewart Edward White | SantaFe Trail The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway by Colonel Henry Inman |
Fort Union Costs 1851 | Footnotes on Luttig |
Running Buffalo | Mountaineers |
Indian tan | Beaver Bait from the journals of Lewis and Clark |
American Notes: Travel in America 1750-1920 | Winter Quarters of the Mountain Men by Kerry Oman |
Business Records of the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company, 1809-1812
Articles of Association MFC | List of Engage's 1812 |
Mandan chief | Regnier |
Thomas James |
Journals
The Autobiography of John Ball Across the plains to Oregon |
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Nathaniel Wyeth's Journals and Correspondence
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Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
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Washington Irving's The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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Bradbury's Travels in the Interior of America TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1809,1810, AND 1811 |
Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River in 1811 |
Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Guide, Indian Agent by Edward Ellis |
Journal of a Trapper Osborne Russell
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Forty Years a Fur Trapper by Charles Larpenteur
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Research Papers
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