 | Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men by Carl P. Russell
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $9.97 the late Carl P. Russell's magnus opus. It's required reading for the era
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 | Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book) by Raymond W. Thorp Jr.
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.98 Some say it's truth, some maintain it's fiction. Either way, it's great reading on ole Liver Eatin.
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 | First Man West: Alexander Mackenzie's Journal of His Voyage to the Pacific Coast of Canada in 1793 by Alexander Mackenzie
Buy used from: $225.00 this man predated Lewis & Clark in the area by 12 years!
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 | The Assiniboine by Edwin Thompson Denig
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $13.91 anything by Edwin Thompson Denig is worth it weight.
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| Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees and Crows (Civilization of the American Indian) by Edwin T. Denig
Buy used from: $11.49 again, Denig.
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 | INDIAN LIFE ON THE UPPER MISSOURI (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by John , C Ewers
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $9.24 Mr. Ewers is dead now, but his valuable work lives on.
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 | The Fur Hunters of the Far West by Alexander Ross
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $18.95 primary source: Alexander Ross.
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 | Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade by Barton H. Barbour
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $14.99 recent work on Fort Union-upper Missouri.
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 | Reconstructing Fort Union (National Parks) by John Matzko
Buy new: $45.00 / Used from: $7.80 a great companion volume.
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 | The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 by John E Sunder
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $6.83 again, required reading for time and place.
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| The fur trade: with concluding chapters by J.W.Smurr by Paul Chrisler Phillips
Buy used from: $38.59 good luck finding these two volumes outside a library. I paid $100 bucks for mine, 15 years ago. U of Oklahoma publisher, but even they no longer have them in print.
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 | Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.99 In print.
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| Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890 by LeRoy R. Hafen
Buy used from: $2.07 Recent trade paper from U. of Oklahoma: Press
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 | Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri by LeRoy R. Hafen
Buy new: $12.55 / Used from: $5.94 In Print.
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 | Trappers of the Far West: Sixteen Biographical Sketches (Bison Book)
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $0.98 In print.
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 | French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $15.00 In print.
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 | Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $3.06 Classic. Still in print.
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| Tabeau's narrative of Loisel's expedition to the upper Missouri by Pierre Antoine Tabeau
Buy used from: $149.83 Hard to find, but still available.
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| William H.Ashley: Enterprise and Politics in the Trans-Mississippi West by Richard M. Clokey
Buy used from: $2.53 If you've read all the books I've listed, you deserve the honorary title "mountain man/woman" yourself.
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