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