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Across the Wide Missouri
Across the Wide Missouri
Author: Bernard DeVoto
This is a book read while I was a member of a western literature club. Considered a tribute to the mountain man, it is illustrated with paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller and Charles Bodmer. The author describes mountain fur trade as a business and a way of life - "what its characteristic experiences were, what conditions governed them, how it h...  more »
ISBN: 210719
Publication Date: 1947
Pages: 451
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Great historical read on the fur trade during the 1830s. Pretty deep, but very interesting!
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