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Author Willoughby, Robert J., 1949-

Title The brothers Robidoux and the opening of the American West / Robert J. Willoughby
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
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
Print version record
Subject Robidou family.
SUBJECT Robidou family
Robidoux, Louis, 1796-1868
Robidoux, Antoine, 1794-1860
Robidoux, Joseph, 1783-1863
Robidou family fast
Subject Fur traders -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Fur traders
Missouri -- Saint Louis
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012285072
ISBN 9780826272911
0826272916