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| #109407 in Books | 1998-09-01 | 1998-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x1.16 x5.50l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 480 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The good old days|By Sherman|I ordered the book because VP Dick Chaney mentioned it in his book "In My Life". He read the book when he was a child and found it educational. It was tough living back then on the new frontier. Mountain men and Indians where the people around if there was anyone at all.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.||.com |Like many U.S. historians, cultural critic Bernard DeVoto believed that the American character was rooted in the experience of westward expansion. Unlike those who championed the civilizing graces of the agrarian frontier, however, DeVoto drew inspiratio
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West.
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