Adventures of Captain Bonneville

In the 1832 Nathaniel J. Wyeth, with a party of inexperienced New Englanders, arrived on the Missouri aiming to profit from the fur and the fishing on the Columbia. That same year, Captain Benjamin Bonneville of the US Army also reached the area with 110 employees; travelling, for the first time in the Rocky Mountains, in the covered wagons. Captain Bonneville was born in France in 1796. Brought up in New York, he became a career soldier on the frontier. In 1831 he obtained leave and financial backing from New York businessmen, and began organising an expedition. Washington Irving was an experienced and successful author when, in March 1836, he paid Bonneville $1,000 for the manuscript journal of the expedition. Irving had already published A Tour on the Prairies and was at work on Astoria – his account of the trading post on the Columbia

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• Camp Composition and the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade

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• Site Structure of Two Buried Stone Circle Sites, Southern Wyoming

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• The San Buenaventura, Mythical River of the West

  C Gregory Crampton, Gloria G Griffen•Pacific Historical Review•1956

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• The masters of the animals among the Wind River Shoshoni

  Äke Hultkrantz•Ethnos•1961

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• To Intermix with Our White Brothers

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