Fort Tecumseh and Fort Pierre Chouteau

Journal and Letter Books, 1830-1850

Buch | Softcover

269 Seiten

2018
South Dakota State Historical Society (Verlag)
9781941813133 (ISBN)

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Letter books, which contained copies of all outgoing correspondence, were once common items at all posts on the upper Missouri, but only a few survive today. Those that do vividly illustrate the nature of commerce on the Northern Great Plains during the first half of the nineteenth century. Michael M. Casler and W. Raymond Wood have transcribed and annotated these rare documents.

“Few geographic locations in the West exhibit a greater concentration of sites of . . . historic fur- and Indian-trade establishments, or one covering a longer time span, than that of the junction of the Bad and the Missouri Rivers.” — G. Hubert Smith

No other part of the West saw such a succession of trading posts as did the heart of modern-day South Dakota, where the Bad River meets the Missouri near the contemporary town of Fort Pierre. Various firms established posts here starting in 1817. Two of these posts, Fort Tecumseh (1822) and Fort Pierre Chouteau (1832), reached their golden age under the American Fur Company in the 1830s and 1840s.

While company employees recorded daily activities in journals, they relayed company business as well as personal information about the individuals at the post in letter books. Letter books, which contained copies of all outgoing correspondence, were once common items at all posts on the upper Missouri, but only a few survive today. Those that do vividly illustrate the nature of commerce on the Northern Great Plains during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Editors Michael M. Casler and W. Raymond Wood transcribed and annotated these rare documents, including some translated from the original French. Known for over a century, the Fort Tecumseh journal and the letter books from Fort Tecumseh and Fort Pierre Chouteau are published here in their entirety for the first time.

Michael M. Casler, a former park ranger with the National Park Service, is currently working as an independent historical researcher. Casler is the author of Steamboats of the Fort Union Fur Trade (1999) and editor of The Original Journals of Charles Larpenteur (2007). He has also written numerous articles on the Upper Missouri fur trade from his home in Williston, North Dakota. W. Raymond Wood has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Oregon and taught anthropology at the University of Missouri for nearly four decades. Among his many publications are Prologue to Lewis and Clark (2002), Twilight of the Upper Missouri River Fur Trade (2008), and A White-Bearded Plainsman: The Memoirs of Archaeologist W. Raymond Wood (2011). He is also the co-author of Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors (2011). He lives in Columbia, Missouri, with his wife, Carolee.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.10.2017
Mitarbeit	Anmerkungen: Michael M. Casler, W. Raymond Wood
Verlagsort	Pierre
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 276 mm
Gewicht	715 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781941813133 / 9781941813133
Zustand	Neuware