| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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From Mountain Man to Millionaire: The "Bold and Dashing Life" of Robert Campbell. By William R. Nester. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xiv, 270 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8262-1218-2.)

The American mountain man who made money in the fur trade was an oddity, although there were notable exceptions, such as John J. Astor, Pierre Chouteau Jr., William H. Ashley, and Robert Campbell. Biographies of these "expectant capitalists" are now complemented by William R. Nester's welcome addition to Harvey L. Carter's authoritative but short sketch of Campbell's life (1971) and an unpublished dissertation by Stephen F. Huss (St. Louis University, 1989). 1

Born in Ulster in 1804 into a dissident Presbyterian farming family of "spartanly comfortable" circumstances, Campbell immigrated in 1822 to join his brother, Hugh, in North Carolina. When Hugh moved to Philadelphia, Robert chose St. Louis, where he joined trappers heading into the Rocky Mountains, all recruits of Ashley. From 1824, and for five years, Campbell worked as trapper and trader. Unlike most, he saved money and was in the right place at the right time, a fortuitous pattern throughout his long and diverse business life. . . .

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