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Excerpt from St. Louis, Vol. 1: The Fourth City, 1764-1911
A Commercial Corner Stone Well Laid - Laclede's Beginning with a Trade of St. Louis in 1911, the Great Primary Fur market-the Grip on Business Which Endured - Washington Irving's Misjudgment - The Estimate of Gabriel Franchere Truer - Man uel Lisa - How Furs Were Cured and Appraised - Taxes Paid in Shaven Deerskins - Cap tains in the American Fur Company - Pierre Chouteau, Jr., the Master Mind - Invasion by the Astor Lieutenants - Expedition to Astoria - Lisa's Long chaseh-wilson P. Hunt and Ramsay Crookes - Ah Indian Problem at Fort Osage - Brackenridge and Bradbury as Peacemakers - Charles Gratiot's Business Sagacity - The Alliance with Astor Brought About - Upper Missouri outfit-kenneth mckenzie, The King - Treaty Making with the Indians - Vivid Impressions of Prince Max - Magnitude of the Business in 1833 - Fort Union, the Capital - Archibald Palmer, the Man of Mystery - The Problem of Firewater - Mr. Astor's Retirement - Beaver Hats Going Out of Fashion - Ashley's Rocky Mountain Expedition - The Hudson Bay Company Thwarted - Bourgeois, Patron and Winterer - Jim Bridger, Mike Fink, the Sublettes and Russell Farnham. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.