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American West Chronicle, Walter Nugent, William Deverell, Barton Barbour
American West Chronicle, Walter Nugent, William Deverell, Barton Barbour
Barton H. Barbour
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Fort Union And The Upper Missouri Fur Trade, Barton Barbour
Fort Union And The Upper Missouri Fur Trade, Barton Barbour
Barton H. Barbour
In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century’s most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor’s fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants’ capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number …
Jedediah S. Smith And Marcus And Narcissa Whitman: Mountain Men And Missionaries In The Far West, Barton Barbour
Jedediah S. Smith And Marcus And Narcissa Whitman: Mountain Men And Missionaries In The Far West, Barton Barbour
Barton H. Barbour
This article compares the experiences of missionaries and mountain men in the early years (1825-1848) of US occupancy of the "Oregon Country," which included today's Idaho. For very different reasons, both the Whitmans and Jedediah S. Smith entered the pantheon of 19th century American iconic "heros," but their real lives were more complex and ambiguous than the mythology suggests. This article explains and analyzes the myths and realities surrounding Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and Jedediah S. Smith. For a sample, read the following introductory paragraph: Dateline: The Cimarron River near the Kansas-New Mexico border, May 1831 A lone horseman, his …
Kit Carson And The 'Americanization' Of New Mexico, Barton Barbour
Kit Carson And The 'Americanization' Of New Mexico, Barton Barbour
Barton H. Barbour
This article appeared as a lead article in the New Mexico Historical Review, 77:2 (Spring 2002), and as one of a dozen biographies in Richard W. Etulain's New Mexico Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories (2002). Carson's contemporary fame, and his mythical and historical legacies offer a great deal of material that helps readers understand not only Kit Carson's real life, but the Santa Fe Trade, fur traders and Indian-White relations, and Anglo-Hispanic relations during the decades spanning 1820 and 1870. For a sample, see the following introductory paragraph: Dateline: Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory, May 1868 Kit Carson, the mountain man, …
Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin On The Santa Fe Trail, 1856-1857, Barton Barbour
Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin On The Santa Fe Trail, 1856-1857, Barton Barbour
Barton H. Barbour
Memorandum book of James. R. Larkin of St. Louis, Missouri, published in cooperation with the Historical Society of New Mexico. Edited and annotated by Barton H. Barbour. This book presents a rare "health-seekers" diary on the Santa Fe Trail in the 1850s. Larkin visited New Mexico at a time of intensive transition, and witnessed several significant events on the trail and in early Anglo-occupied New Mexico. Few such diaries exist, and Larkin's in one of the earliest and most robust health-seeker diaries known.