Majority of Scoundrels, A: An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company
Majority of Scoundrels, A: An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company
by Don Berry
Oregon State University Press, 2006 Paper: 978-0-87071-089-6 | eISBN: 978-1-962645-00-3 Library of Congress Classification HD9944.U48R63 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 338.76852
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
PART ONE
ASHLEY AND HIS MEN 1822-1826
1
“There to be employed”
2
“Being completely Parylized”
3
“The honor of American arms”
4
“A Verry unfavourable account”
5
“A more pitible state if possible than myself”
6
“Whom 1 rather take to be spies”
7
“Do you know in whose Country you are?”
8
“Has indemnified himself for all . . . losses”
PART TWO
SMITH JACKSON & SUBLETTE 1826-1830
9
“That I will not furnish any other company”
10
“I was looked upon with suspicion”
11
“I have acted honorable and shall continue so”
12
“This man was placed in power to perplex me”
13
“Murderers of your people & Robbers of your property”
14
“We dashed through the ranks of the foe”
15
“Craig began to sing, and I began to laugh; but Nelson took to swearing”
PART THREE
THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN FUR COMPANY 1830-1834
16
“Rushed upon him like so many blood-hounds”
17
“Then began the usual gay carousal”
18
“A dishonest transaction from beginning to end”
19
“A bitter and unreasonable commercial strife”
20
“It appears that they make hats of silk”
21
“Float down and see what the world is made of there”
22
“The company did authorize experiments”
23
“Obliged to pay well for a cessation of hostilities”
Afterword
Brief Calendar of Events in the Fur Trade Preceding 1822
