| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.2

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Book Review

The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade. By Stan Hoig. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xi + 337 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Stan Hoig follows the adult lives of several enterprising sons of the original St. Louis Chouteau, Pierre. Hoig examines the development of the western fur trade and expansion of the Indian frontier on the Arkansas and Missouri rivers. The first three chapters summarize the founding of St. Louis to 1812, while the following chapters are riveting with first person accounts and a myriad of facts that make for easy reading. The toils that the Chouteau men experienced show the range of Hoig's research—unending confrontation with unpredictable Native Americans, dangerous competitors, illness, lack of food and money, theft, inclement weather, and unqualified U. S. agents. In the name of progress to build the bigger post and the faster steamboat, the river trade hastened its own demise. The success of the railroad was something that no one expected, and it would soon overshadow the river trade.

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