Notes chittenden (5 resultados)

paperback. Condición: Very Good. Two Volume Set Trade (larger) paperbacks. Prompt shipping from Colorado. Books cleaned and sanitized. ~"Buy with Confidence, Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Hardcover. First Edition. 136 pages. An edition of 1000 copies. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in illustrated paper over boards and faux leather covers. Lettering on bright gilt on spine. No dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Nice as pictured ecept for a 2 book softcover set. Both books are first editions. gently read. no creases. fore edges show some handling . But book one shows a wine spill top edge rear index pages 548-569 half inch red. fading . does not touch text.

Soft cover. Condición: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None as Issued. First Edition, First Printing. 2-Volume Set. For both Volumes : BRAND NEW Copies, First Edition, First Printing. ISBN cited is to Volume 1; for Volume 2, it is: 080326321X. Classic study by historian and Seattle District Engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers, General Hiram Martin Chittenden (1858 - 1917). First published in 1902; this edition is a reprint of the original text w/a few exceptions regarding typographic errors. The complete treatise is in 5 parts; the first two in Volume 1 (w/Foreword by James P. Ronda), and the last three in Volume 2 (w/Foreword by William R. Swagerly). They are: Part I, The Fur Trade; II, Historical; III, Contemporary Events Connected with the Fur Trade; IV, Notable Incidents & Characters Connected in the History of the Fur Trade; and, V, The Country & Its Inhabitants, followed by 9 appendices. For both Volumes, Introduction & Notes by Stallo Vinton.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. BOTH VOLUMES ARE INCLUDED, 1986 paperback, A nice copy. No writing or highlighting. Clean pages, shows very minimal signs of wear from use. Shipped with care. Feel free to inquire for photos or more details. --- A two-volume history of the American fur trade west of the Mississippi, first published in 1902 and reissued here by the University of Nebraska Press as a Bison Books paperback set, with introduction and notes by Stallo Vinton. Beginning with a brief overview of the origins of the fur trade in eastern North America, the work provides a detailed description and analysis of the major fur-trading companies operating west of the Mississippi River, other than those in the Southwest. Volume 1 covers the organisation and financing of the trade and a detailed history of the major American companies operating in the trans-Mississippi West to the year 1843. Volume 2 follows figures such as Ezekial Williams, Hugh Glass, Mike Fink, and John Colter, and describes the explorers, missionaries, government survey parties, and Indian tribes of the fur trade West, together with the geography that often determined their success or failure. Nine appendixes containing miscellaneous primary materials precede a bibliography and index. Chittenden drew on the private papers of the Chouteau and Sublette families of St. Louis, on regional newspapers, and on correspondence with other historians of the West.…