Books by Hiram Martin Chittenden

Provides a perspective or overall outline of the fur trade that, after nearly a century, remains sound. This book describes the explorers, missionaries, government survey parties, and Indian tribes of the fur trade West, and the geography that often determined their success or failure.

Spans the closing years of the Civil War, when Southern fortunes were waning. This book shows the extreme vulnerability of the Indians caught between two warring sides.