Ceran St. Vrain
Subtitle: American frontier entrepreneur
By: by Ronald K. Wetherington ; with foreword by Marc Simmons
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780865348585
Subjects: Material culture; Antiquities; Businessmen; Flour mills; Pioneers; Trappers; Excavations (Archaeology); Biography; History
Other titles: Ceran Saint Vrain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Historical Background; title: Ceran St. Vrain and His New Mexico Connections; title: Grain, Mercantilism, and the Territorial Economy; title: St. Vrain's First Mills : Taos and Mora; title: The Mills in Santa Fe and Colorado; title: Milling and Merchants at Century's Close; title: pt. 2. Archaeology of the Taos Mill; title: The Technology of Milling in the 19th century; title: The Excavations; title: The Artifacts; title: Interpretations and Conclusion.