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Across the wide Missouri
| Title | Across the wide Missouri |
| Names | De Voto, Bernard. |
| Book Number | DB033338 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | Originally published in 1947. The author chronicles the history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, which flourished in the 1830s. He describes the business as a vocation--although the rivalry between competing companies was often violent--and examines its relationship to westward expansion. Volume 2 of a trilogy and sequel to "The Year of Decision: 1846." Pulitzer Prize. |
| Narrator | Metzler, Art. |
| Local Subject | History, United States - HUS |
| History - HST | |
| Adult Book - AD | |
| Adult Non-Fiction - AN | |
| History - History of the American West - HUSW | |
| Award-Winning Adult Books - AWA | |
| History - U.S., frontier history - HUSF | |
| History, U.S. - 19th Century - HUN | |
| History - Modern World - HWO | |
| History - North America - HWN | |
| Sequel - SEQ | |
| Long Book - LO | |
| Audience Notes | Male narrator. |
| Pulitzer Prize winner. |
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| LC Subject | Fur trade - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
| West (U.S.) - History - To 1848 |
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| Call Number | 978 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 1947 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1947 (APH, recording studio). |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1987, c1947. |