Across the wide Missouri /

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 ho...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: DeVoto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955 (Awdur)
Fformat: Llyfr
Cyhoeddwyd: Cambridge : Houghton Mifflin, 1947
Pynciau:
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Crynodeb: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.
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:xxvii, 480 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.