Forty years a fur trader on the Upper Missouri

Description:

The son of French immigrants who settled in Maryland, Charles Larpenteur was so eager to see the real American West that he talked himself into a job with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1833. When William Sublette and Robert Campbell sold out to the American Fur Company a year later they recommended the steady and sober young Larpenteur to Kenneth McKenzie, who hired him as a clerk.

subjects: Frontier and pioneer life,  Indians of North America,  Fur trade,  Biography,  History,  Fur traders,  Description and travel,  Indians of north america, west (u.s.),  Sociological jurisprudence,  Frontiers and pioneer life,  Fourrures,  Commerce,  Vie des pionniers,  Peuples autochtones,  Descriptions et voyages,  Travel

People: Charles Larpenteur (1807-1872)

Places: Missouri River Valley,  West (U.S.),  Missouri River,  Northwestern States

Times: 19th century