Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri
The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Charles Larpenteur, born 1803, died 1872, was an American fur trader, whose memoir and diary frequently have been used as a source to fur trade history.
During his forty years in the fur trade Larpenteur diligently kept a diary, using it as a source to complement his memory when he wrote his memoir. Unable to finance publication of the memoir, he sent the manuscript to Washington Matthews, a U.S. Army surgeon he had learned to know at Fort Buford. At the end of the century, Matthews transferred the manuscript to Elliott Coues, a brother officer in the Medical Corps; a version was hence published in 1898.
Customer Reviews
An honest title and full of facts
The book gives a good account on how different and difficult the west was. It also truthfully shows how the white man stole the land from the First Nations. Making them live a different life than they were born to and given them the worst land to live on. I do believe this to be a truthful account of how it was.