This overview is a synthesis of current knowledge about archeological resources in that portion of Missouri primarily north and east of the southern Ozarks. Prepared by a number of regional specialists, we refer to the study area as the prairie-timberlands region to reﬂect the two major biomes that exist in the region. As we emphasize throughout the volume, these biomes-especially given their sensitivity to climatic variation- were important variables in prehistoric as well as historical-period adaptations by human groups. Our purpose in preparing the volume is to give the reader, whether he or she be a professional archeologist, a cultural resource manager, or simply an interested lay person, a sense of what we see as the important archeological resources. The report is not intended to be an exhaustive summary of everything that is known about the archeological record of Missouri. Rather, the report is a distillation of information gleaned from literally thousands of reports, articles, and other documents-information that we view as important from several standpoints...

Holocene Human Adaptations in the Missouri Prairie Timberlands

W. Raymond Wood

Michael J. O'Brien

Katherine A. Murray

Jerome C. Rose

Arkansas Archeological Survey

Edited by Virginia L. Heidenreich 
The impact of the fur trade on American Indian cultures in North Dakota from the 1730s to 1880s is captured in four well-written essays by W. Raymond Wood, C.L. Dill, Gregory S. Camp, and Jacqueline C. Peterson. The essays detail the people, companies, and forts that dominated the era, making a case that the fur trade and encounters with European races were primary factors in the destruction of Indian culture. This book also is an articulate overview of the fur trade, Indian traders, intertribal relations, and interaction between environment and economics. 
An exceptional complement to collections on fur trade and history, this book also is an excellent resource on Chippewa and Métis history on the Plains.

The Fur Trade in North Dakota

C.L. Dill

Gregory S. Camp

Jacqueline C. Peterson

State Historical Society of North Dakota

Few geographic locations in the West exhibit a greater concentration of sites of . . . historic fur- and Indian-trade establishments, or one covering a longer time span, than that of the junction of the Bad and the Missouri Rivers. -G. Hubert Smith No other part of the West saw such a succession of trading posts as did the heart of modern-day South Dakota, where the Bad River meets the Missouri near the contemporary town of Fort Pierre. Various firms established posts here starting in 1817. Two of these posts, Fort Tecumseh (1822) and Fort Pierre Chouteau (1832), reached their golden age under the American Fur Company in the 1830s and 1840s. While company employees recorded daily activities in journals, they relayed company business as well as personal information about the individuals at the post in letter books. Letter books, which contained copies of all outgoing correspondence, were once common items at all posts on the upper Missouri, but only a few survive today. Those that do vividly illustrate the nature of commerce on the Northern Great Plains during the first half of the nineteenth century. Editors Michael M. Casler and W. Raymond Wood transcribed and annotated these rare documents, including some translated from the original French. Known for over a century, the Fort Tecumseh journal and the letter books from Fort Tecumseh and Fort Pierre Chouteau are published here in their entirety for the first time.

Fort Tecumseh and Fort Pierre Chouteau: Journal and Letter Books, 18301850

History

Michael M Casler

Americas

South Dakota State Historical Society

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