Nebraska History posts materials online for your personal use. Please remember that the contents of Nebraska History are copyrighted by the Nebraska State Historical Society (except for materials credited to other institutions). The NSHS retains its copyrights even to materials it posts on the web. For permission to re-use materials or for photo ordering information, please see: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/magazine/permission.htm Nebraska State Historical Society members receive four issues of Nebraska History and four issues of Nebraska History News annually. For membership information, see: http://nebraskahistory.org/admin/members/index.htm Article Title: The Upper Missouri Fur Trade: Its Methods of Operation Full Citation: Ray H Mattison, “The Upper Missouri Fur Trade: Its Methods of Operation,” Nebraska History 42 (1961): 1-28 URL of article: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1961FurTrade.pdf Date: 11/15/2011 Article Summary: The fur trade flourished along the Missouri in the early years of the nineteenth century. Traders concerned solely with profit exploited the Indians who worked for them. That treatment caused a distrust of white men that lingered after the annihilation of bison herds in the early 1880s had made fur trading an insignificant business. Cataloging Information: Names: Manuel Lisa; Edward T Denig; Rudolph Friederick Kurz; Maximilian, Prince of Wied; Charles Larpenteur; Kenneth McKenzie; Alexander Culbertson; Francis Chardon Fur Trading Companies: Hudson’s Bay Company; Northwest Company; Company of Explorers of the Upper Missouri; Missouri Fur Company; Rocky Mountain Fur Company; Columbia Fur Company; Western Department, American Fur Company; Upper Missouri Outfit; Sublette and Campbell American Fur Company Trading Posts: Cabanne’s Post (Nebraska), Fort Pierre (South Dakota), Fort Clark (North Dakota), Fort Union (North Dakota), Fort McKenzie (Montana) Keywords: Manuel Lisa; Edward T Denig; Rudolph Friederick Kurz; Maximilian, Prince of Wied; Charles Larpenteur; Kenneth McKenzie; Alexander Culbertson; Francis Chardon; Hudson’s Bay Company; American Fur Company Photographs / Images: map showing fur trading posts; two views of Fort Union (Bodmer image from the days of the fur trade and 1948 National Park Service photo); two views of Fort Pierre (Bodmer and National Park Service, 1954); two drawings by W Sammons: “Fur trading scene in the 1830s,” and “The fur trader takes a wife”; Indians attacking fur traders (Harpers Weekly, May 23, 1868); Steamboat “Yellowstone” ____ I ' - .