Across the Wide Missouri

Book

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Across the Wide Missouri

Entry/Object ID

L9999.575.13122

Description

Across the Wide Missouri deals with the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the years of its climax and decline. Description of mountain fur trade as a business and as a way of life: what its characteristic experiences were, what conditions governed them, how it helped to shape our heritage, what its relation was to the western expansion of the U.S., most of all how the mountain men lived. Illustrated with paintings by Miller, Bodmer and Catlin. Contains account of the discovery of the Miller collection by Mae Reed Porter of Kansas City. 383/Hardbound/Illustrations

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Fur trade, Exploration

Search Terms

Western Art, Miller, Alfred Jacob, Catlin, George, Bodmer, Karl, Fur Trade, Western Migration, Survey History

Book Details

Author

DeVoto, Bernard

Place Published

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Date Published

1947

Call No.

Western DE

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Good