The Yellowstone National Park - historical and descriptive - illustrated with maps, views and portraits (1903) (14577250047)

Identifier: yellowstonenatio1904chit (find matches)
Title: The Yellowstone National Park : historical and descriptive : illustrated with maps, views and portraits
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917
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Publisher: Cincinnati : R. Clarke Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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h referencehas been made was the American Fur Company. It wasthe final outcome of John Jacob Astors various attemptsto control the fur trade of the United States. Although itwas incorporated in 1808, it was for a time overshadowedby the more brilliant enterprises known as the Pacific FurCompany and the Southwest Fur Company. The historyof Mr. Astors Pacific Fur Company, the dismal experi-ences of the Astorians, and the deplorable failure of thewhole undertaking, are matters familiar to all readers ofIrvings Astoria. The other project gave for a time more substantialpromise of success. A British company of considerableimportance, under the name of the Mackinaw Company,with headquarters at Michilimacinac, had for some timeoperated in the country about the headwaters of the Missis-sippi now included in the States of Wisconsin and Min-nesota. Astor formed a new company, partly with Amer-ican and partly with Canadian capital, bought out theMackinaw Company and changed its name to Southwest
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The Tetox Mountain and Jackson Lake. THE TRADER AND TRAPPER. SI Fur Company. But scarcely had its promising careerbegun when it was cut short by the War of 1812. The failure of these two attempts caused Mr. Astor toturn to the old American Fur Company. The exclusionAct of 1816 enabled him to buy at his own price the North-west Fur Companys posts on the upper rivers., and theAmerican Company rapidly extended its trade over all thecountry, from Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains. Itsposts multiplied in every direction, and at an early datesteamboats began to do its business up the Missouri Riverfrom St. Louis. It gradually absorbed lesser concerns,such as the Missouri Fur Company, and the Columbia FurCompany, and by 1830 was complete master of the tradethroughout the Missouri Valley. In 1834, Astor sold hisinterests to Pratte, Chouteau and Company, of St. Louis,and retired from the business. At this time the generalwestern limit of the territory operated in by this formid-able company