The story of the fur trade in Teton Valley as it has never been told before.Pierre's Hole! studies forty years of contact between native peoples and Euro-Americans in the early Rocky Mountain West, using new information that has come to light since Benjamin W. Driggs first published the valley's history in 1926.In the early 1800s, a thriving trade in furs destined for the international hat market brought trappers and increasing numbers of Indians into Idaho's Teton Basin, just across the Teton Range from Jackson's Hole. This commerce created a favorite rendezvous location and a thoroughfare for both populations. One of the most active centers of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, the Teton Basin provided the stage for many dynamic personalities and dramatic events of the era. A close look at Pierre's Hole connects the reader to the entire sweep of fur trade history in the American West, from Fort Astoria on the Pacific Coast to the trading houses of St. Louis, Missouri. Told through eyewitness accounts of men like Jim Bridger, Joe Meek, Nathaniel Wyeth and others, this Teton Valley history places the reader on the ground as the action unfolds. Drawing from trapper journals - the earliest records of the region - historian Jim Hardee fills in the presettlement gaps of the narrative: a period when Teton Valley was known as Pierre's Hole, Snake River was Lewis Fork and the Tetons were the Pilot Knobs. Hardback with dust cover, 416 pages, 62 illustrations including 16 color plates, 6 x9 inches

Pierre’s Hole! The Fur Trade History of Teton Valley, Idaho

Jim Hardee

Museum of the Mountain Man / Sublette County Historical Society

Obstinate Hope studies Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth who is not numbered among America's greatest heroes. The successful Boston ice merchant is considered a failure in the fur trade. Yet Wyeth was a practical businessman with an adventurous Yankee spirit that led him twice across the continent and back, in 1832 and again in 1834, prior to the development of reliable maps or emigrant trails. Wyeth's contributions to westward expansion have been largely overlooked by historians. Obstinate Hope is part one of a two part examination of the life of Nathaniel J. Wyeth. The book begins with a look at Wyeth's pre-fur trade life including his heritage, operation of the family's Fresh Pond Hotel and his early career in the ice industry. The bulk of the book details his first expedition to the west (1832-1833) using his letters and journals as its base. The narrative follows Wyeth on his trip to the fur trade rendezvous in Pierre's Hole, on to the Pacific Northw...est and then back to the East coast. Each of Wyeth's journal entries are accompanied by the author's commentary, providing insight into Wyeth's experiences. The story is supplemented with information from the journals and letters of other people who were with him for all or part of the trip. The commentary also compares what Wyeth encountered in the west with events and occurrences from other trapper diaries. Ten maps and more than three dozen images illustrate the text. Jim Hardee is the editor of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal, published by the Sublette County Historical Society and the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale, Wyoming. Jim is the author of Pierre's Hole: The Fur Trade History of Teton Valley, Idaho. He is also the director of the Fur Trade Research Center and is a presenter for many conferences and symposiums. He has published numerous articles on various fur trade topics, and lives in Pierre's Hole, Idaho.

Obstinate Hope, the Western Expeditions of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1832-1833

Museum of the Mountain Man

Volume 10 of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade journal

The Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal, Volume 10, 2016

Michael M Casler

Larry E. Morris

Clay J. Landry

Don Arp Jr.

Carol Kuhn

Nathaniel Wyeth spent three long years establishing Fort Hall, in present-day Idaho, and Fort William, in modern Oregon. That time had been marked by illness, deaths, failed business plans and violence, but had also given Wyeth insights into the frontier that few others could claim. This closing volume of The Western Expeditions of Nathaniel J. Wyeth examines the New Englander's 1834-1836 trip to the Ham's Fork Rendezvous and subsequent explorations along the Columbia River and its tributaries. Enriched by a trove of journals and letters written by Wyeth, Hudson's Bay Company officials, naturalists Thomas Nuttall and John K. Townsend, and a host of others, as well as rarely-seen business documents, this work brings greater understanding to the role Nathaniel Wyeth and Fort Hall played in the opening of the American West to settlement and commerce.

Hope Maintains Her Throne, the Western Expeditions of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1834-1836

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Pierre’s Hole! The Fur Trade History of Teton Valley, Idaho

Obstinate Hope, the Western Expeditions of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1832-1833

The Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal, Volume 10, 2016

Hope Maintains Her Throne, the Western Expeditions of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1834-1836