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1 online resource |
Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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Contents |
The business of the father -- Emerging sons -- Working the Missouri -- Into the mountains -- Trouble at Council Bluffs -- The Blacksnake Hills Post -- Brothers in New Mexico -- Joseph builds his own town -- Dwindling prospects in the mountains -- War and finding home -- Queen City of the west -- The end of their era -- Epilogue |
Summary |
Story of the six brothers who came from Canada to Saint Louis, creating fur trading and Indian trading businesses, founding towns, exploring Missouri, and dealing in land |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Robidou family.
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SUBJECT |
Robidou family
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Robidoux, Louis, 1796-1868
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Robidoux, Antoine, 1794-1860
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Robidoux, Joseph, 1783-1863
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Robidou family fast |
Subject |
Fur traders -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Fur traders
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Missouri -- Saint Louis
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2012285072 |
ISBN |
9780826272911 |
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0826272916 |
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