Across the Wide Missouri
by Bernard DeVotoliterary work· published 1947
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West.
Adaptations (1)
Across the Wide Missouri was adapted into a 1951 film.
Across the Wide Missouri1951 · film · 78 min · dir. William A. Wellman · IMDb ↗IMDb6.2In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
