John Jacob Astor\'s dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company.
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Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri focuses on eighteen men who represented the American Fur Company and its successors in the Upper Missouri trade.
At Astor\'s retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward from a depot on Mackinac Island to subposts beyond the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers.
John Jacob Astor\'s dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company