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Excerpt from The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Vol. 2 of 3: A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and of the Overland Commerce With Santa Fe
The Mallet brothers First commercial expedition Morrison and La Lande James Purcell Manuel Lisa Pike's expedition Mal gares' expedition The Spaniard and the American mcknight. Baird and Chambers Chouteau and demunn Adventures of D. Meriwether - Termination of Spanish sovereignty in Mexico Baird, mcknight and Chambers again William Becknell - Glenu and Fow ler Becknell's second journey First wagons on the Santa Fe Trail Expedition of Baird and Chambers, 1822 Expeditions of 1824 - Beck nell on Green river Expedition of James O. Spattie Summary Of early expeditions Government survey ofr0ad to Santa Fe Military escorts to the caravans Major Riley's escort Obstacles to the trade - Influence of the trade upon the War with Mexico. 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.
