Date of Award
4-1937
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Raphael N. Hamilton
Second Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
People do unaccountable acts and to such I lay the choice of my thesis. Primarily the subject deals with Jedediah Smith a private fur trader, but the paper also includes several features of the fur trade as a whole. A scattered glimpse of the trade in its entirety is revealed to-gether with a brief snatch of the lives of several individuals who wrote their achievements in its history. There is a sketch of John Jacob Astor, the fur capitalist, of General William Ashley, the trader - business man, of the glamorous Manuel Lisa who pioneered the early Missouri Fur Company and lastly the subject of the thesis, Jedediah Smith, the man who dared to cross the ranges of the Rocky Mountains and explored the one section of North America unknown at the time to any citizen of our republic.
Recommended Citation
Wilke, Robert George, "The Fur Trade West of the Mississippi River Exemplified by Jedediah Smith" (1937). Bachelors’ Theses. 2072.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/2072
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.