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• Title:The fur-trade and early Western exploration / by Clarence A. Vandiveer.
  
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• Author/Creator:Vandiveer, Clarence A.
  
• Published/Created:Cleveland : Arthur H. Clark Company, 1929.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: F5514 .V24
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: F5514 .V24
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Fur trade--Canada.
  Fur trade--West (U.S.)
  Northwest, Canadian--Discovery and exploration.
  West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.
  
• Description:316 pages, [6] leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  
• Contents:Beginnings of the fur trade
  Exploration and trade
  English, dutch, and french rivalry
  Explorations of radisson and grosseilliers
  Marquette and joliet-early waterways and portages
  Adventures of lasalle in canada and the west
  Lasalle on the mississippi
  Beginning of the hudson's bay company
  Count vérendrye and the discovery of the rockies
  English supremacy-hearne's explorations
  The northwest fur company
  The first crossing of the continent
  Trade and exploration on the pacific coast
  American independence-trans-mississippi explorations
  Explorations in the southwest
  John jacob astor and the fur-trade
  Return of the astorians-the american fur company
  British and american traders in oregon and the rockies
  Union of the northwest and hudson's bay companies
  Jedediah smith's california expeditions
  Travels of bonneville and walker
  Wyeth's enterprise-a fur-trade rendezvous
  Free traders and trappers
  Some famous free trappers
  French voyageurs or coureurs de bois
  Forts of the fur-trade
  Life at the fur posts
  Later days