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Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839

F.A. Chardon, Annie Heloise Abel, William R. Swagerty
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      Thirty years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through the Mandan villages in present-day North Dakota, the Upper Missouri River region was being plied by fur traders. In 1834 Francis A. Chardon, a Philadelphian of French extraction, took charge of Fort Clark, a main post of the American Fur Company on the Upper Missouri. The journal that Chardon began that year offers a rare glimpse of daily life among the Mandan Indians, including the Arikaras, Yanktons, and Gros Ventres. In particular, it is a valuable and graphic record of the smallpox scourge that nearly destroyed the Mandans in 1837. Chardon describes much of historical interest, including such figures as the interpreter Charbonneau, Sacajawea’s husband, and the fantastic James Dickson, “Liberator of all the Indians.” By the time his account ends in 1839, the fur trade is already in decline.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: F.A. Chardon, Annie Heloise Abel, William R. Swagerty EAN: 9780803263758 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 567 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Nebraska Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-02-01 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History, History of the Americas

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      Chardon’s journal was long lost, rediscovered, and finally edited and published in 1932 by Annie Heloise Abel, a distinguished scholar whose works, all available as Bison Books, included The American Indian As Slaveholder and Secessionist; The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862–1865; and The American Indian and the End of the Confederacy, 1863–1866. Her historical introduction provides background on the fur trade and on Chardon’s life before and after his tenure at Fort Clark. William R. Swagerty is a history professor at the University of Idaho.
      Thirty years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through the Mandan villages in present-day North Dakota, the Upper Missouri River region was being plied by fur traders. In 1834 Francis A. Chardon, a Philadelphian of French extraction, took charge of Fort Clark, a main post of the American Fur Company on the Upper Missouri. The journal that Chardon began that year offers a rare glimpse of daily life among the Mandan Indians, including the Arikaras, Yanktons, and Gros Ventres. In particular, it is a valuable and graphic record of the smallpox scourge that nearly destroyed the Mandans in 1837. Chardon describes much of historical interest, including such figures as the interpreter Charbonneau, Sacajawea’s husband, and the fantastic James Dickson, “Liberator of all the Indians.” By the time his account ends in 1839, the fur trade is already in decline.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: F.A. Chardon, Annie Heloise Abel, William R. Swagerty EAN: 9780803263758 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 567 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Nebraska Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-02-01 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History, History of the Americas

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      Chardon’s journal was long lost, rediscovered, and finally edited and published in 1932 by Annie Heloise Abel, a distinguished scholar whose works, all available as Bison Books, included The American Indian As Slaveholder and Secessionist; The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862–1865; and The American Indian and the End of the Confederacy, 1863–1866. Her historical introduction provides background on the fur trade and on Chardon’s life before and after his tenure at Fort Clark. William R. Swagerty is a history professor at the University of Idaho.

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