For those of you who enjoy reading as much as I do, I might suggest checking out these books at AMAZON.COM.  They are specialists in finding out of print books, with over a million titles in stock.

    I recommend the following books with reference to the FUR TRADE ERA that we all love and portray: (click on the title for a link to Amazon.com)

1.  A Rendezvous Reader: Tall, Tangled, and True Tales of the Mountain Men 1805-1850, James H. Maguire (Editor), et al/Paperback/Pub 1987

2.  The American Fur Trade of the Far West Vol 1, Hiram Chittenden, Paperback/Published 1986

3.  Many Tender Ties : Women in the Fur Trade Society, 1670-1870 Sylvia Van Kirk/Paperback/Published 1983

4.  The Travels of Jedediah Smith : A Documentary Outline including the Journal of the Great American PAthfinder, Sullivan/Paperback/Pub'92

5.  The Fur Trade of the American West, 1807-1840/Paperback/1992

6.  Harvesting Shadows : Untold Tales from the Fur Trade, H. D. Smiley/ Paperback/Published 1989

They literally have HUNDREDS of books on the Fur Trade Era.  I keep ordering from them because they can get the older, out of print books that I frequently want to read.