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Bill Sublette Mountain Man

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ISBN-10: 0806111119

ISBN-13: 9780806111117

Edition: N/A

Authors: John E. Sunder

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Bill Sublette (1799-1845) led two lives. Renowned as a hardy mountain man, he ranged the Missouri, Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Sweetwater River country between 1823 and 1833 hunting beaver, fighting Indians, and unwittingly opening the West for settlers (he proved that wagons could be used effectively on the Oregon Trail). Financial success and silk hats, which strangled the fur trade, later forced him to a less adventuresome life in St. Louis as a gentleman farmer, businessman, and politician. Not only did Sublette help develop the rendezvous system in the fur trade and blaze the first wagon trail through South pass, but also he established what was later Fort Laramie, was a participant in…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 4/15/1973
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

John E. Sunder was the author of The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 and Joshua Pilcher, Fur Trader and Indian Agent and editor of Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.