Author: Lois Horowitz Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 1136
Book Description
Gleans from more than 400 genealogy and history periodicals articles listing military men in America's wars from the Colonial era to the Spanish-American War. ...a valuable addition to any library with an interest in genealogy. --ARBA Both military historians and genealogists will find this volume an extremely useful aid to their research. --SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
Author: John E. Sunder Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806157321 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
Bill Sublette (1799-1845) led two lives. Renowned as a hardy mountain man, he ranged the Missouri, Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Sweetwater River country between 1823 and 1833 hunting beaver, fighting Indians, and unwittingly opening the West for settlers (he proved that wagons could be used effectively on the Oregon Trail). Financial success and silk hats, which strangled the fur trade, later forced him to a less adventuresome life in St. Louis as a gentleman farmer, businessman, and politician. Not only did Sublette help develop the rendezvous system in the fur trade and blaze the first wagon trail through South pass, but also he established what was later Fort Laramie, was a participant in laying the foundation for present Kansas City, and left a large fortune to excite envy and exaggeration, One of the most successful fur merchants of the West, he also helped to break John Jacob Astor's monopoly of the trade.
Author: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department Publisher: ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 930
Author: Lois Horowitz
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
Author: Library of Congress
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
Author: Library of Congress
Author: John E. Sunder
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Dept
Author: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Author: John E. Sunder