Fur Traders, Trappers and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri

Edited by LeRoy R. Hafen
138 pages, Paperback, 1995
 
This book focuses on eighteen men who represented the American Fur Company and its successors in the Upper Missouri trade. Their biographies have been compiled from the classic ten-volume Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West. 
 
These chapters bring back movers and shapers of a great venture: Ramsay Crooks, the mountain man who headed the AFC after John Jacob Astor (the creator); Kenneth McKenzie, "King of the Missouri"; Gabriel Franchere, survivor of the Astorian disaster; Charles Larpenteur, commander of Fort Union and fur-trade chronicler; the fiery William Laidlaw and others.