Title The brothers Robidoux and the opening of the American West / Robert J. Willoughby.

Publication Info.	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.
Contents	The business of the father -- Emerging sons -- Working the Missouri -- Into the mountains -- Trouble at Council Bluffs -- The Blacksnake Hills Post -- Brothers in New Mexico -- Joseph builds his own town -- Dwindling prospects in the mountains -- War and finding home -- Queen City of the west -- The end of their era -- Epilogue.
Summary	Story of the six brothers who came from Canada to Saint Louis, creating fur trading and Indian trading businesses, founding towns, exploring Missouri, and dealing in land.
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Subject	Robidou family.
	Robidou family.
	Fur traders -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography.
	Fur traders.
	Missouri -- Saint Louis.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Willoughby, Robert J., 1949- Brothers Robidoux and the opening of the American West. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2012285072
ISBN	9780826272911 (electronic book)
	0826272916 (electronic book)
	9780826219916 (hardcover)
	0826219918 (hardcover)