| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade. By Barton H. Barbour. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. xvi + 304 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $34.95.)

The fur trade, regrettably, is of limited interest to many historians and students of the American West. Barton H. Barbour, however, convincingly shows that this attitude is short-sighted. Up to the time of the Civil War, fur traders had a very significant role in Indian-white relations, foreign affairs, trade, and the evolvement of U. S. government policies in the ever-expanding West. For decades, the trappers and traders were the only white men to have direct contact with the Indians, and posts established by the trading companies, such as Fort Union, provided shelter for numerous explorers, artists, and scientists who viewed the West before the arrival of the soldiers, miners, and settlers. . . .

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