| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Barton H. Barbour. Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.2001. Pp. xvi, 30r. $34.95.

The book under review is the best researched, most comprehensive volume ever written on Fort Union. At first blush that statement may seem dubious to historians who have predetermined that fur trade history is little more (or less!) than popular history. But the truth is that Fort Union, which from 1830 to 1867 occupied an elevated prairie near the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, served as a powerful United States presence in the Northern Plains, and its economic importance extended south to St. Louis, east to New York, and across the Atlantic Ocean to London. Fort Union and its counterparts in the fur trade enterprise put an American imprint on the West as they provided both capital and corporate models for business. Fort Union existed as America's most important nineteenth century fur trade post, the longest lived, the most profitable, and the most populous. It was also the best documented, an advantage that Barton H. Barbour uses to great effect. . . .

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