William H. Ashley. Enterprise and Politics in the Trans-Mississippi West
first edition Hardcover
1980 · Norman
by Clokey, Richard M.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. xiii, 305 pp. 9 maps and 16 illustrations. Brown cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Describes for the first time not only Ashley's full significance to the fur trade but also the noteworthy details of a varied and intriguing private and public life. Covers his humble beginnings without property or education through his diverse enterprises in the mining region of Missouri, through his preoccupation with land as a surveyor, speculator, and promoter, through his innovations in the fur trade, to his contributions as a public figure.. (Inventory #: 6973)