Beyond the Rendezvous: Fur Traders and Sea Merchants as Community Builders in the West
Autor William R. Swagertyen Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2027
Although most fur trade–era histories of the American West end around 1850, Beyond the Rendezvous focuses on the period from 1820 to 1900, beginning in California and ending in Montana, while also covering settlements in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, and Oregon. Swagerty introduces more than seventy families not only as pioneers in trade and commerce but also as community builders, with legacies visible today in towns and in their lineages. The fur trade should be seen as one of the West’s more enduring and significant institutions because of the multicultural world it fostered across several generations in both Canada and the United States. This lively narrative demonstrates the ongoing significance of the fur trade era and its enduring impact on North America.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496235084
ISBN-10: 1496235088
Pagini: 430
Ilustrații: 22 photographs, 4 maps, 7 tables, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496235088
Pagini: 430
Ilustrații: 22 photographs, 4 maps, 7 tables, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
William R. Swagerty is a professor emeritus of history at the University of the Pacific and now lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is the author of The Indianization of Lewis and Clark, volumes 1 and 2; coeditor of Encounters with the People: Written and Oral Accounts of Nez Perce Life to 1858, and The Nez Perce Nation Divided: Firsthand Accounts of Events Leading to the 1863 Treaty, among other books.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Stereotypes of Fur Trade Personnel and Roles as Community Builders
Work Histories, Livelihoods, and Later Lives
Chapter 2. West Coast Foreign Settlers in Spanish, Mexican and British North America
A Fluid Geography and the Quest for National Sovereignty
Chapter 3. Horse Thieves and Beaver Poachers: Jedediah Smith’s Legacy
Chapter 4. Commercial Agents and Merchants in California: “Respectable” Anglos
Chapter 5. 1841 The “Tipping Point”
Mexican California Empresarios—Empire and Community Builders
Chapter 6. Mountain Men as Agents, Guides and Bear Flaggers
Carson, Boggs and Fitzpatrick: Establishing Heroes and Recognizing Family Connections
Chapter 7. Retirement Profiles in the Southern Rockies and New Mexico
Wintering Parks and Holes of the Rockies
Chapter 8. Retirement Communities on the Plains
Bordeaux, Bissonette, and Robidoux
Chapter 9. Borderlands as “Hearths of Crossed Races”
The Pacific Northwest
Chapter 10. Fur Trade Posts Turned Military Posts and Indian Agencies as Residential Communities
Chapter 11. Conclusion
Hidden Refuges in an Era of Transition
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Stereotypes of Fur Trade Personnel and Roles as Community Builders
Work Histories, Livelihoods, and Later Lives
Chapter 2. West Coast Foreign Settlers in Spanish, Mexican and British North America
A Fluid Geography and the Quest for National Sovereignty
Chapter 3. Horse Thieves and Beaver Poachers: Jedediah Smith’s Legacy
Chapter 4. Commercial Agents and Merchants in California: “Respectable” Anglos
Chapter 5. 1841 The “Tipping Point”
Mexican California Empresarios—Empire and Community Builders
Chapter 6. Mountain Men as Agents, Guides and Bear Flaggers
Carson, Boggs and Fitzpatrick: Establishing Heroes and Recognizing Family Connections
Chapter 7. Retirement Profiles in the Southern Rockies and New Mexico
Wintering Parks and Holes of the Rockies
Chapter 8. Retirement Communities on the Plains
Bordeaux, Bissonette, and Robidoux
Chapter 9. Borderlands as “Hearths of Crossed Races”
The Pacific Northwest
Chapter 10. Fur Trade Posts Turned Military Posts and Indian Agencies as Residential Communities
Chapter 11. Conclusion
Hidden Refuges in an Era of Transition
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“William Swagerty’s Beyond the Rendezvous fills an important historical gap, elaborating upon mountain men’s lives during and after their trading and trapping days. He convincingly challenges the three stereotypes of mountaineers as individualistic romantic heroes, daring delinquents, and expectant capitalists by adding a fourth dimension of fur traders as family men and community builders.”—Jay H. Buckley, coauthor of Explorers of the American West and Great Plains Forts
“In the late 1830s, the reality of making a living trapping beaver declined, right along with the end of the Rocky Mountain fur trade rendezvous. But the trappers who strived to eke out a living in the fur trade did not just disappear. Their stories are well represented in William Swagerty’s latest book. Swagerty grasps the nuance of how these men, and more importantly, their families, adapted to the shifting face of the frontier and their effect on integral changes in the settlement patterns that lay ahead. Given Swagerty’s immense body of research, his insight on how fur men and their families impacted the settlement of the West is noteworthy and provides a refreshing look at how mountaineers impacted the development of communities in an expanding West.”—Jim Hardee, editor of Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal
“William Swagerty has made another important contribution to the history of the American West with his study of mountain men who built permanent communities through marriage and commerce. He dispenses with the usual stereotypes of people associated with the fur trade. Far from the violent, buckskin clad recluse, many a former trapper lived a far more constructive and interesting life as part of Mexican California and New Mexico and under the American flag. While a few mountain men spent their days living the fur trapper’s life, after a few seasons many of these men simply took up another trade, went into farming, or became merchants. Swagerty’s focus on fur trade families is a contribution to American social history. Some of them married into the Mexican and Native American populations and thus founded multicultural and multiracial families who were an important constituent of the frontier population. His study of several communities comprised of such families broadens our understanding of the region as well as the age in which they existed. This book should be required reading for all students of the American West.”—Albert L. Hurtado, author of Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands
“In the late 1830s, the reality of making a living trapping beaver declined, right along with the end of the Rocky Mountain fur trade rendezvous. But the trappers who strived to eke out a living in the fur trade did not just disappear. Their stories are well represented in William Swagerty’s latest book. Swagerty grasps the nuance of how these men, and more importantly, their families, adapted to the shifting face of the frontier and their effect on integral changes in the settlement patterns that lay ahead. Given Swagerty’s immense body of research, his insight on how fur men and their families impacted the settlement of the West is noteworthy and provides a refreshing look at how mountaineers impacted the development of communities in an expanding West.”—Jim Hardee, editor of Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal
“William Swagerty has made another important contribution to the history of the American West with his study of mountain men who built permanent communities through marriage and commerce. He dispenses with the usual stereotypes of people associated with the fur trade. Far from the violent, buckskin clad recluse, many a former trapper lived a far more constructive and interesting life as part of Mexican California and New Mexico and under the American flag. While a few mountain men spent their days living the fur trapper’s life, after a few seasons many of these men simply took up another trade, went into farming, or became merchants. Swagerty’s focus on fur trade families is a contribution to American social history. Some of them married into the Mexican and Native American populations and thus founded multicultural and multiracial families who were an important constituent of the frontier population. His study of several communities comprised of such families broadens our understanding of the region as well as the age in which they existed. This book should be required reading for all students of the American West.”—Albert L. Hurtado, author of Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands
Descriere
Beyond the Rendezvous goes beyond the usual history of fur trappers and traders, instead focusing on the communities formed by the mountain men after their trapping and trading days and extending their stories beyond 1850.