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CHITTENDEN, U. S. Engineer Corps. The Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge, Pioneer Navigator and Indian Trader. For fifty years identified with the commerce of the Missouri Valley. Map, portraits, and illustrations from early photographs. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth. (Edition limited to 950 copies.) $6.00 net A valuable and interesting original work by the author of The American Fur Trade of the Far West." Very few people now have any conception of the part the steamboat navigation of the Missouri River played in the upbuilding of the West. The business of the fur trade, the intercourse of government agents with the Indians, the campaigns of the army throughout the valley, and the wild rush of gold-seekers to the mountains, all depended, in greater or less degree, upon the Missouri River as a line of transportation. No other river in this country has a record to compare with it. From beginning to end it abounds in thrilling incident, and the life which it fostered was full of picturesque and even tragic details. The American Fur Trade of the Far West By CAPT. HIRAM M. CHITTENDEN, U. S. Engineer Corps. A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains, and of the Overland Commerce with Santa Fé, etc., written largely from manuscript and other records hitherto inaccessible. Illustrated with maps and plates and an elaborate folding map of the Trans-Mississippi Territory, showing Posts, Trails, Waterways, Indian Tribes, etc., in great detail. 3 vols., 8vo, cloth, uncut, per set, $10.00 net A work of the highest merit and greatest importance on the early history of the great West. The author has embodied in it the results of years of painstaking research, going into the whole subject with a thoroughness and ability rarely met with in these days. 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