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Across The Wide Missouri (other)
Across the Wide Missouri may refer to: * ''Across the Wide Missouri'' (book), a 1947 book by Bernard DeVoto * Across the Wide Missouri (film) ''Across the Wide Missouri'' is a 1951 American Technicolor Western film based on historian Bernard DeVoto's eponymous 1947 book. The film dramatizes an account of several fur traders and their interaction with the Native Americans. Directed ..., a 1951 American film based on the book *" Oh Shenandoah" or "Across the Wide Missouri", a traditional American folk song {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Across The Wide Missouri (book)
''Across the Wide Missouri, With an Account of the Discovery of the Miller Collection'' is a 1947 book by American historian Bernard DeVoto. It is the second volume of a trilogy that includes ''The Year of Decision'' (1942) and ''The Course of Empire'' (1952). Description ''Across the Wide Missouri'' is a history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the American West in the Upper Missouri River basin during its peak in the 1830s. It focuses on the Rocky Mountain Fur Company (RMFC), which competed with John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company and the Hudson's Bay Company by setting up an annual summer trade rendezvous supplied by overland wagon train in a different mountain valley every year instead of using fixed trading posts. The chronology is sometimes confusing, but the book contains a lively if somewhat romanticized portrayal of the way of life of the individual trappers known as Mountain Men, who were the RMFC's main suppliers and customers, with less attention given to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Across The Wide Missouri (film)
''Across the Wide Missouri'' is a 1951 American Technicolor Western film based on historian Bernard DeVoto's eponymous 1947 book. The film dramatizes an account of several fur traders and their interaction with the Native Americans. Directed by William A. Wellman, the film stars Clark Gable as cunning trapper Flint Mitchell, Ricardo Montalbán as Blackfoot Iron Shirt, John Hodiak as Brecan, María Elena Marqués as Kamiah, a Blackfoot chief's daughter Mitchell marries and later falls in love with, J. Carrol Naish as Nez Perce Looking Glass, and Adolphe Menjou as Pierre. Howard Keel, as Mitchell's son "Chip Mitchell", narrates. Plot In the 1830s in the Rocky Mountains, fur trapper Flint Mitchell meets at the summer "rendezvous" with other mountain men, cashing in his furs, drinking, and enjoying contests among his friends. He organizes a hunting "brigade" into the beaver-rich Blackfoot territory, buying horses and recruiting trappers, despite protests from his Scottish frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
