Across The Wide Missouri: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

by Bernard DeVoto

Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395924976
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	224,282
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.15(d)

About the Author

Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a renowned scholar-historian of the American West and one of the country's greatest men of letters.