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41) Beauty for ashes
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
47) The mountain men
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the death throes of the harsh and beautiful life of the early trappers in the Rocky Mountains.
50) Annals of Astoria: the headquarters log of the Pacific Fur Company on the Columbia River, 1811-1813
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xxx, 256 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Theytus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a young boy is assigned a project about the fur trade by his teacher, he doesn't know who to turn to because his mom works all day. With help from his grandfather and the internet, they travel back in time and discover how the fur trade began, a new people emerged, the Métis' role in the fur trade, Louis Riel and the Red River Resistance, and the reason behind a holiday named Louis Riel Day."--
Author
Publisher
Animikii Mazina'iganan: Thunderbird Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
196 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This explores the Fur Trade from an Ojibwe perspective, offering insights into Ojibwe life, kinship and clan systems, technologies, and puts Ojibwe women back at the heart of this remarkable era. The fur trade was the first global trading system and the Ojibwe people were key players in a historical period that has shaped the geography, social structures, and history of Minnesota, and the nation. More than 800 pen and ink drawings, connecting historical...
54) High country
Author
Series
High country volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
485 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young man in a virgin land, a sweeping saga alive with the courage, challenge, danger and adventure that was the American frontier. In 1825 the distant Rockies offered all the adventure and wealth a young man could want. The mad demand for beaver pelts spawned a booming fur trade that sent men to battle against the fury of nature, hostile Indian tribes, and even each other in an ordeal that only the strongest could survive. Zach Hannah was a mere...
Author
Publisher
Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
614 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Beauty for ashes: A sequel to "So Wild a Dream" finds 1820s apprentice mountaineer Sam Morgan traveling with a fur brigade in search of the Crow Native American woman he loves, an endeavor for which he must adopt the ways of her people and escape capture by the Sioux.
Heaven is a long way off: Sam Morgan, once a young runaway from Philadelphia, now a seasoned fur trapper and mountain man, faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life. It...
58) The mountain men
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English