Fur Trade: Trading Posts and State Narratives

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.

Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast.

The authors describe the environmental and cultural setting of the fort (named after William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition), including the social profile of the fur traders who lived there. They also chronicle the histories of the Mandans and the Arikaras before and during the occupation of the post and the village.

William Clark's journal on His Expedition To Establish Fort Osage, August 25 To September 22,1808. A Description Of The Wilderness, An Account Of The Building Of The Fort, Treaty-Making With The Osages, And Clark's Return To St. Louis.