Forging a Fur Empire: Expeditions in the Snake River Country, 1809-1824

by John Phillip Reid

Alexander Ross, the pioneer recorder of the early fur trade in the far northern West, led a beaver trapping expedition in 1824 into the vast, unfamiliar territory east of trading posts in the Pacific Northwest. He and his men ventured deep into Snake River country in present-day Idaho and Montana. In this narrative, based on the accounts left by Ross and others, historian and legal scholar John Phillip Reid describes the experiences of the earliest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870624024
• ISBN13: 9780870624025
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"