Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri
The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872
Nonfiction, Sports, Outdoors, Hunting, Fishing, Travel, United States
| Author: | Charles Larpenteur | ISBN: | 9788822818652 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Press | Publication: | September 4, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Charles Larpenteur |
| ISBN: | 9788822818652 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Press |
| Publication: | September 4, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Charles Larpenteur, born 1803, died 1872, was an American fur trader, whose memoir and diary frequently have been used as a source to fur trade history.
During his forty years in the fur trade Larpenteur diligently kept a diary, using it as a source to complement his memory when he wrote his memoir. Unable to finance publication of the memoir, he sent the manuscript to Washington Matthews, a U.S. Army surgeon he had learned to know at Fort Buford. At the end of the century, Matthews transferred the manuscript to Elliott Coues, a brother officer in the Medical Corps; a version was hence published in 1898.
Charles Larpenteur, born 1803, died 1872, was an American fur trader, whose memoir and diary frequently have been used as a source to fur trade history.
During his forty years in the fur trade Larpenteur diligently kept a diary, using it as a source to complement his memory when he wrote his memoir. Unable to finance publication of the memoir, he sent the manuscript to Washington Matthews, a U.S. Army surgeon he had learned to know at Fort Buford. At the end of the century, Matthews transferred the manuscript to Elliott Coues, a brother officer in the Medical Corps; a version was hence published in 1898.
