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• Title:The fur hunters of the far West / edited with historical introduction and notes by Milo Milton Quaife ; with frontispiece.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ross, Alexander, 1783-1856.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959.
  
• Published/Created:Chicago : The Lakeside Press : R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1924.
  

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  • Call Number: FC3212.1 .R681 1924
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Fur trade--Northwest, Pacific.
  Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific.
  Northwest, Pacific--History.
  Oregon Territory--History.
  
• Description:xxxix, 317 pages : 1 illustration ; 18 cm
  
• Series:Lakeside classics ; v. 22.
  
• Additional formats:Also available online.
  
• Notes:Includes facsimile of t.p. of original edition: The fur hunters of the far West : a narrative of adventures in the Oregon and Rocky mountains / by Alexander Ross ... In two volumes. Vol. I. London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1855.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Historical introduction
  Preface to the original edition
  Introduction to the original edition
  Activities of the year 1814
  The end of the old order
  McKenzie returns to the Columbia
  The new system of trade inaugurated
  Affairs at She Whaps and among the Snakes
  The foundling of Fort Nez Percés
  The great Snake nation
  Manners and customs of the Far Northwest.