How Long to Read Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade

How Long Does it Take to Read Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 39 minutes to read Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade by Barton H. Barbour

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. Barton H. Barbour is Professor of History at Boise State University and author of Jedidiah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

How long is Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade?

Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade by Barton H. Barbour is 334 pages long, and a total of 84,836 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 43 minutes to read Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade aloud.

What Reading Level is Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade?

Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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