MtMan-List: Re:Info Search

[David Mullen <dmullen@jemez.com>]

Mr. Rudy is correct that the University of Nebraska Press (Bison Books) has 
started to re-release excerps from the original collection. There is a fourth 
book entitled "French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West" by 
LeRoy Hafen and Janet LeCompte that was released in hardcover by the Arthur 
H. Clark Company in 1995. Bison Books is supposed to release it in paperback 
form this spring. It contains 22 more biographies from the original series. 
Hope this is of some help.
Best Regards,
David Mullen

Dean Rudy wrote:
> 
> At 05:16 PM 3/30/97 -0500, Jim Hardee wrote:
> >A few weeks back, Philip Korth was looking for a source for Hafen's 10 vol.
> >set of books on the Mountain Men and Fur Trade of the Far West. ....
> >....It would be a major undertaking, but perhaps scanning this valuable
> resource
> >into Dean's web page out to be considered once the primary source material is
> >done.
> >
> 
> Hi,
> Hafen's collection of biographies are a great resource.  Unfortunately,
> they are copyrighted, and the copyright holder has chosen to not keep them
> in print, and consequently they have become rare and extremely expensive.
> Therefore, it will be a long time before we can add them to the web page -
> the copyright likely won't expire before I do!
> 
> There is an alternative y'all should know about though.  Excerpts from the
> original collection of biographies have been re-printed by University of
> Nebraska Press- Bison Books.  There are three volumes so far - the titles
> are: "Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West", "Trappers of the Far
> West" and, most recently, "Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountian Men of the
> Upper Missouri".  These volumes comprise 52 biographies from the original
> Hafen series.  They are readily available in paperback - I think I have a
> link to the publisher at the "Mountain Men and the Fur Trade" web site.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
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