Antoine Robidoux And The Rise Of Nuche – American Commerce

Taos Lightnin’, Furs, Guns, Horses, and Slaves

Abstract lines on maps notwithstanding, trappers and traders from both the Fort Vancouver based Hudson Bay Company and the Saint Louis based Rocky Mountain Fur Company routinely violated Mexican “sovereignty” in the modern states of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. Despite a favorable impression of the trapping and trading prospects in the “Winty” (Uintah)…