Fur Trappers and Traders of the Far Southwest

Book

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Fur Trappers and Traders of the Far Southwest

Entry/Object ID

L1998.1.27

Description

Fur Trappers and Traders of the Far Southwest are twenty biographical sketches taken from the ten volume collection of Mountain Men and Fur Trading edited by LeRoy Hafen. These trappers of the southwest are not as well known as the men of the Central and Northern Rockies. They were independent rather than companies. They worked out of Taos, New Mexico. Included are: Marcelino Baca by Janet Lecompte Jules DeMun by Janet Lecompte James Kirker by William Cochran McGaw Jacob Fowler by Raymond W. Settle Issac Slover by Andrew F. Rolle Ewing Young by Harvey L. Carter Etienne Provost by LeRoy R. Hafen Antoine Robidoux by William S. Wallace William Sherley (Old Bill) Williams by Frederic E. Voelker George C. Yount by Charles L. Camp Kit Carson by Harvey L. Carter Sylvestre S. Pratte by David J. Weber John Rowland by David J. Weber Gervais Nolan by David J. Weber Thomas L. (Peg-leg) Smith by Alfred Glen Humphreys William Wolfskill by Iris Higbie Wilson (Engstrand) Ceran St. Vrain by Harold H. Dunham John Gantt by Harvey L. Carter Charles Bent by Harold H. Dunham Dick Wooton by Harvey L. Carter 305/Softbound/Illustrations/Map

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Trappers-Southwest, Fur Traders-Southwest, Fur Trading, Biography, Mountain Men

Book Details

Author

Hafen, LeRoy R., Editor

Place Published

City

Logan

State/Province

Utah

Date Published

1997

Call No.

Western HA

ISBN

0-87421-235-9

LCCN

97-30832

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Kit Carson

Person or Organization

Peg Leg Smith

Person or Organization

Antoine Robidoux

Person or Organization

George C. Yount

Person or Organization

Marcelino Baca

Person or Organization

Charles Bent

Person or Organization

Jules DeMun

Person or Organization

Jacob Fowler

Person or Organization

John Gantt

Person or Organization

James Kirker

Person or Organization

Gervais Nolan

Person or Organization

Sylvestre S. Pratte

Person or Organization

Etienne Provost

Person or Organization

John Rowland

Person or Organization

St. Vrain, Ceran

Person or Organization

Issac Solver

Person or Organization

Old Bill Williams

Person or Organization

Wolfskill, William

Person or Organization

Wooton, Dick

Person or Organization

Ewing Young