Marriage and Settlement Patterns of Rocky Mountain Trappers and Traders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3134161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William R Swagerty (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159 |
| Publication date | 1980-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Historical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-3810 • E-ISSN: 1939-8603 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/967638 |
| OpenAlex | W2566111336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
S ince the 1830s much ink has been devoted to that special occupational group of 3,000 or so men who participated in one of the more short-lived socioeconomic phenomena in American historythe fur trade of the Far West.' In all of our social history, no other category of Americans, with the exception of politicians, has received so much attention as this cadre of often overly romanticized, yet persistently charismatic, group of mythological and real personalities.2 Described variously as rangers of the wilderness ... come[ing]and go[ing] ... when and where they please, a 'genus' more approximating to the
Biology · Business · Geography · Settlement (finance) · American Environmental and Regional History · Ecology · Forestry · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 2016 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |