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This Far-Off Wild Land

by | May 13, 2013 | Uncategorized

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A Scottish emigrant, Andrew Dawson (1817-1871) worked at Pierre Chouteau Jr. and Company’s Upper Missouri trading posts from 1847 until 1864. After superintending Fort Benton from 1854 onward, he retired to Scotland. By then, government freighting contracts and commerce with overland migrants, soldiers and miners had supplanted the old-time Indian trade. Thirty-seven of Dawson’s surviving letters to relatives form the documentary core of This Far-Off Wild Land: The Upper Missouri Letters


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