| LeRoy Reuben Hafen - History - 1995 - 168 pages
John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward from a depot on Mackinac ... | |
| LeRoy Reuben Hafen - History - 1983 - 362 pages
In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West ... | |
| LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen - History - 2005 - 380 pages
In 1857 President Buchanan quietly sent new officials to rule the Utah Territory and replace Brigham Young as the territorial governor. With no official announcement, the new ... | |
| LeRoy Reuben Hafen - History - 2004 - 374 pages
In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first ... | |
| LeRoy Reuben Hafen - History - 1992 - 342 pages
It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of ... | |
| LeRoy Reuben Hafen - History - 1982 - 440 pages
The legendary mountain men—the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century—formed the ... | |
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