| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Frontier Diplomats: The Life and Times of Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina'. By Lesley Wischmann. (Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 2000. 400 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.50.)

Alexander Culbertson was born near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1809, and he spent his early life in and around this area. During the summer of 1826, at the age of seventeen, Culbertson left his family confines at Chambersburg and in the company of his uncle, John Culbertson, a sutler with the U. S. Army's First Infantry, traveled to the Gulf states frontier. In 1827, the First Infantry had transferred to Jefferson Barracks at St. Louis. The author maintains that it was here that Culbertson first came under the influence of the American Fur Company (AFC). The Culbertsons did not stay long in St. Louis, as the First Infantry was re-assigned to Ft. Snelling, Minnesota Territory. Here, the two set up a trading post on the Mississippi River, trading for six years with both the Indians and military. In 1832, Alexander's uncle retired from the trading business. They returned to St. Louis that spring where John Culbertson had a draft drawn on the Mississippi Outfit of the AFC. While collecting this draft at the AFC office, Alexander Culbertson was offered a fur-trade job, but declined, as he wanted to return home for the first time since 1826. . . .

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