American Fur Company records, 1803-1849.

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American Fur Company records, 1803-1849.

Cash books, daybooks, inventories, journals, ledgers, letterbooks and settlement books. Burton holds originals relating to the fur trade at Mackinac, 1803-1806 and 1817-1843. Collection contains microfilm copies and photostats of other original material held at: Mackinac Island, Supervisor of Park and Harbor Commission; the National Archives of Canada, Montreal; the New York Historical Society; Library of Congress; Carnegie Public Library; and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

4 boxes, 2 wallets, 23 v., 3 large manuscripts, 43 microfilm reels.

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American Fur Company

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Fur trading company in the American West. From the description of Papers, 1835-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497429 Chartered by John Astor in 1808. Astor withdrew his interest in 1834 and in 1864 the company was sold to the North Western Fur Company. From the description of American Fur Company records, 1803-1849. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 56975212 No information is available on Livingstone, except as noted above. Franchere...

Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859

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Born at Greenock, Scotland, Jan. 2, 1787, and emigrated to Montreal at the age of 16. Entered the employ of a fur trader, Robert Dickson, at Mackinac, but soon, in 1806, moved on to St. Louis and formal partnership with Robert McClellan for trade on the upper Missouri. In 1810 the partnership was dissolved, Crooks returned to Canada, and there joined the recruits for the proposed overland journey to Astoria. He became a partner in Astor's Pacific Fur Company, but after a disheartening journey re...