Fur Trade and Apparel Industry

Call numbers follow each title. Call numbers beginning with "R" are for use in the library only. Circulating copies are available for some titles, as noted.

Chittenden, Hiram Martin. The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and Rocky Mountains and of the Overland Commerce with Santa Fe. Stanford, California: Academic Reprints, 1954.  R 338.1 C543A.

Dolin, Eric Jay. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.  R 970 D664F and circulating copy.

Fivel, Sharon. From Carriage Trade to Ready-Made: St. Louis Clothing Designers, 1880-1920.  St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society. R 391.2 F565F.

Hafen, LeRoy R., editor.  Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.  R 978 F983.

Lippincott, Isaac. A Century and a Half of Fur Trade at St. Louis. St. Louis: Washington University, 1916.  R 977.866 L765C.

Musick, James B.  St. Louis as a Fortified Town: a Narrative and Critical Essay of the Period of Struggle for the Fur Trade of the Mississippi Valley and its Influence upon St. Louis. St. Louis: Press of R.F. Miller, 1941.  977.866 M987S and circulating copy.

Rawlings, Jennifer L.  Finding Aid to the Fur Trade Illustration Project, 1945-1948. St. Louis: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, 2001.  R 338.3729 R259F.

Schulle, Jennifer Marie. “Fashion and Fallen Women: The Apparel Industry, the Retail Trade, Fashion, and Prostitution in Late 19th Century St. Louis.” Ph.D. dissertation,I owa State University, 2005.  R 977.866 S386F.

Sunder, John E. The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.  R 338.3729 S957F.