Research at "Historical Research & Development" [HRD]

[Buck Conner1]

Research at "Historical Research & Development" [HRD]

I'm always being asked about some of the research we had done when at "Historical Research & Development" [HRD] before they closed.  

One large area of interest was the North American Fur Trade along with North America in general. We did many hours of research on the equipage (then testing as well as producing some of the wares along with studying the folks involved). 

For me it was a dream come true working with the talented members of HRD, what a treat (their knowledge was unbelievable, the depth of their knowledge was vast).

Shown below is one of my research references I use all the time.

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NORTH AMERICAN FUR TRADE:

• Anderson, Steve A. Angus McDonald of the Great Divide.  Museum of North Idaho. Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho. 2011.
• Berry, Don. A Majority of Scoundrels. Northwest Reprints, Oregon State University. Corvallis, Oregon. 2006.
• Brackenridge, Henry M. Views of Louisiana, Together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River in 1811. Cramer, Spear, and Richbaum. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1814.
• Bradbury, John. Travels in the Interior of America in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1986.
• Benemann, William. Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desires in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 2012.
• Burpee, Lawrence, J. Journals and Letters of Pierre Gaultier de Varendes de la Verendrye. Toronto.  1927
• Chittenden, Hyrum Martin. American Fur Trade of the Far West. Volume I‑II. The Press of the Pioneers, Inc., New York, New York, 1935.
• Clyman, James. Journal of a Mountain Man. Mountain Press Publishing Company. Missoula, Montana. 1984.
• Coues, Elliot (Ed.).  New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and David Thompson. Francis P. Harper, New York. 1897.
• Dakota Panorama: A History of Dakota Territory. Edited by, J. Leonard Jennewein and Jane Boorman.  Brevet Press. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 1988.
• DeVoto, Bernard. The Course of the Empire. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1983.
• Dolin, Eric Jay. Fur, Fortune, and Empire. W. W. Norton & Company. New York, N.Y.
• Favour, Alpheus H. Old Bill Williams Mountain Man. University of Oklahoma Press. Norman, Oklahoma. 1987.
• Ferris, W. A. Life in the Rocky Mountains. Paul C. Phillips ed. Old West Publishing Company. Denver, Colorado 1940.
• Fayel, William. A Narrative of Colonel Robert Campbell’s Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade from 1825 to 1835. Museum of the Mountain Man. http//www.user.xmission.com./~drudy/library.html.
• Franchère, Gabriel. Adventures at Astoria 1810-1814. Translated and Edited by Hoyt C. Franchère. University of Oklahoma Press. Norman, Oklahoma. 1967.
• Gilbert, Bil. Westering Man - The Life of Joseph Walker. University of Oklahoma Press. Norman, Oklahoma. 1985.
• Gowans, Fred. Rocky Mountain Rendezvous. Perrigrine Smith Books Layton, Utah. 1985.
• Hafen, LeRoy R. Broken Hand. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1983.
• Hafen, LeRoy R. Editor. Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln Nebraska. 1982.
• Hafen, LeRoy R. Editor. French Fur Traders & Voyageurs in the American West. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1997.
• Hafen, LeRoy R. Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1982.
• Hafen, LeRoy R. (Ed).  Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West.  Vol. I-X. Arthur H. Clark Co. Spokane, Wash. 2000. 1966.
• Hafen, LeRoy R. (Ed). Trappers of the Far West. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1983.
• Haines, Francis. The Plains Indians: Their Origins, Migration and Cultural Development. Thomas Y Crowell Company. New York, N.Y.. 1976.
• Hanson, Jr. Charles E. The Hawken Rifle: It’s Place in History. The Fur Press. Chadron, Nebraska. 1980.
• Hanson, Jr. Charles E. The Plains Rifle. The Gun Room Press. Highland Park, New Jersey. 1960.
• Hardee, Jim. Pierre’s Hole ! The Fur Trade History of Teton Valley. Sublette Historical Society. Pinedale, WY. 2010.
• Harris, Burton. John Colter: His years in the Rocky Mountains. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln Nebraska. 1993.
• Harrison, Clifford Dale. The Explorations of William H. Ashley and Jedediah Smith 1822-1829. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln. Nebraska. 1991.
• Hawke, David Freeman.  Those Tremendous Mountains. The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York. 1985.
• Hunt, Wilson Price. The Overland Diary of Wilson Price Hunt. Translated From The French and Edited by Hoyt C. Franchère. The Oregon Book Society. Ashland, Oregon. 1973.
• Irving, Washington. Astoria. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1982.
• Irving, Washington. Adventures of Captain Bonneville. Binfords & Mort, Publishers. Portland, Oregon.
• Jackson, Donald. Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois. 1981
• James, Thomas. Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1984. [ more exaggeration than fact]
• Lavender, David. Westward Vision. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1985.
• Larpenteur, Charles. Forty Years a Fur Trader. Online Edition Mtmen.org.
• Leonard, Zenas. Adventures of a Mountain Man. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1978.
• Lindsley, Margaret Hawkes. Andrew Henry: Mine and Mountain Major. Jelm Mountain Publications. Laramie, Wyoming. 1990.
• Luttig, John C. Journal of a Fur‑Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri 1812‑1813. Argosy‑Antiquarian Ltd. New York. 1964.
• Mattes, Merrill J. Colter’s Hell & Jackson’s Hole. Yellowstone Library and Museum Association. Mammoth, Wyoming. Grand Teton National Park. Jackson, Wyoming. 1962
• Mattes, Merrill J. Jackson’s Hole, Crossroads of the Western Fur Trade 1807-1840. Board of Trustees Jackson Hole Museum, Jackson, Wyoming. 1987.
• Moulton, Gary E. Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Vol. I-XIII. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska, 2002.
• Morgan, Dale L. Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West. Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska. 1969.
• Myers, John Meyers. The Saga of Hugh Glass. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1976.
• Nastair, A. P. (Ed.). Before Lewis and Clark. Vol. I-II. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1990.
• National Park Service. Exploring the American West 1803‑1879. Handbook 116. U. S. Department of the Interior. Washington, D. C. 1982
• Neihardt, John G. The Splendid Wayfaring: Jedediah Smith and the Ashley-Henry Men. 1822-1831. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1970.
• Nelson, Fern K. Mountain Men of Jackson’s Hole. - Jackson Hole Museum. Jackson, Wyoming. 1989.
• Newman, Peter C. Company of Adventures. Penguin Books, New York. 1987.
• Newman, Peter C. An Illustrated History of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Toronto, Canada. 1995.
• Porter, Mae Reed and Davenport, Odessa. Scotsman in Buckskin: Sir William Drummond Stewart and the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade. London: Hastings House. 1963.
• Oglesby, Richard Edward. Manuel Lisa and the Opening of the Missouri Fur Trade. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman Oklahoma. 1963.
• O’Meara, Walter. The Savage Country. Houghton Miffin Company. Boston, Mass. 1960.
• Quaife, Milo M. (Ed.) The Journal of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway. Cushing-Malloy, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1965.
• Rhonda, James P. Astoria &Empire. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1990.
• Rollins, Phillip A. The Discovery of the Oregon Trail. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska. 1990.
• Ross, Alexander. Adventure of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810‑1813. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1986.
• Russell, Carl P. Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1986.
• Russell, Osborn. Journal of a Trapper [1834-1843]. Bison Book. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1970.
• Ruxton, George Frederick. Life in the Far West. Leroy F. Hafen. University of Oklahoma Press. Norman, Oklahoma. 1985.
• Skarston, M. O. George Drouillard Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader 1807‑1809. Arthur H. Clark Co. Glendale, California. 1964.
• Schuler, Harold H. Fort Pierre Chouteau. University of South Dakota Press. Vermillion, South Dakota. 1990.
• Schneider, Paul. Brutal Journey: Cabeza De Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America. Owl Books, New York, N.Y. 2007.
• Stewart, William Drummond. Edward Warren. Mountain Press Publishing Company. Missoula, Montana. 1986.
• Sunder, John E. Bill Sublette Mountain Man. University of Oklahoma Press. Norman, Oklahoma. 1973.
• Townsend, John Kirk. Across the Rockies to the Columbia. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1978.
• Thwaites, Ruben G. (Ed.). Early Western Travels 1748‑1846. Vol. V, VI. Arthur H. Clark Co. Cleveland, Ohio. 1904.
• Thwaites, Rueben Gold (Ed.). Rocky Mountain Exploration. D. Appleton and Company. New York. 1904.
• Thwaites, Rueben Gold (Ed.). Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806. Vol. I-VIII. Arno Press, Inc. 1969.
• Tykal, Jack B. Etienne Provost: Man of the Mountains. Eagle’s View Publishing Company, Liberty, Utah.
• Vestal, Stanley. Jim Bridger Mountain Man. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1972.
• Victor, Francis Fuller. The River of the West. Volume I, Edited by Winfred Blevins. Mountain West Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana. 1983.
• Wishart, David J. The Fur Trade of the American West 1907‑1840. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1979.
• Weber, David J. The Taos Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. 1982.
• Wood, W. Raymond and Thiessen, Thomas D. (Ed.).  Early Fur Trade of the Northern Plains: Narratives of John Macdonell, Francois-Antoine Larocque, David Thompson, Charles McKenzie. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. 1987.

This just touches the surface of what is available in libraries, museums and the Internet today.

Thank you for your time.