Barbour, Barton H. Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001)

Chittenden, Hiram Martin. The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume I (reprint) (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989)

Chittenden, Hiram Martin. The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume II (reprint) (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986)

Clokey, Richard M. William H. Ashley: Enterprise and Politics in the Trans-Mississippi West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990)

Dale, Harrison Clifford. The Explorations of William H. Ashley and Jedediah Smith, 1822-1829 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991)

De Voto, Bernard. Across the Wide Missouri (reprint). (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998)

Foley, William E. The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1983)

Larpenteur, Charles. Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989)

Goetzmann, William H.H. Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1994)

Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West, edited by LeRoy Hafen (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982)

Nester, William R. From Mountain Man to Millionaire: The Bold and Dashing Life of Robert Campbell (Missouri Biography Series) (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999)

Oglesby, Richard Edward. Manuel Lisa and the Opening of the Missouri Fur Trade (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963)

Sunder, John E. The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1965; 1993 printing)

Thorne, Tanis C. The Many Hands of My Relations: French and Indians on the Lower Missouri (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996)

Utley, Robert M. A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific (New York: Owl Books, 2003)

Library of Western Fur Trade Historical Resource Documents: Diaries, Narratives, and Letters of the Mountain Men

Beavers and Boomtown: Remembering the St. Louis Fur Trade

French Entrepreneurship in the Post Colonial Fur Trade

The Fur Trade: Beaver Powered Mountaineering

Rocky Mountain and Plains Indians Fur Trade