Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Preliminary Bibliography on the American Fur Trade One of the subjects being considered for interpretation by museum methods at the Jefferson National expansion.memorial in St. Louis is the story of the American fur trade. Emphasis would be placed on the important influence Of this trade on our national expansion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.