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In this first comprehensive history of the fur trade in the Far Southwest, David J. Weber has utilized Spanish, Mexican, and American sources to describe the development of the Taos trade and the early penetration of the area by French and American trappers.
There are such colorful characters as Ewing Young, Kit Carson, Peg-leg Smith and the Robidoux brothers pioneered new trails to the Colorado Basin, the Gila River, and the Pacific and contributed to the wealth that flowed east along the Santa Fe Trail.
This book won the Border Regional Library Association's History Award for 1971. Historians and others interested in the fur trade and the Southwest (especially the Spanish Borderlands) will find it a valuable reference and the clash of the three cultures in the Southwest certainly helps make it an interesting one to read.
CONDITION: Soft Cover, 263 pages, USED with light overall wear, notes by previous owner inside back cover. Previous owner book stamp inside front cover. Illustrated with maps and line drawings.
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