Across the Wide Missouri

1947 • 476 pages

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West.

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Genre

Adventure

Series

7 primary books

#15 in Frontera

Frontera is a 7-book series with 7 primary works first released in 1947 with contributions by Dorothy M. Johnson, Vardis Fisher, and Alan LeMay.