To do this assignment, you will need to read carefully the PRIMARY sources provided in Salevouris, evaluating who wrote them, when, under what circumstances, the authors motivations and biases. Try to piece together what happened in the summer of 1823 on the Upper Missouri River and why this story matters/is significant.
-Your thesis should be complex, debatable by scholars, and evidence-based (i.e.
can be proven with evidence vs. a belief/fact statement).
1 Be sure to cite at least FOUR primary sources and at least ONE peer-reviewed article or scholarly book.
2. use primary sources in Michael J. Salevouriss, The Methods and Skills of History, pp. 287-294 for this assignment.
ANSWER: Why did the [Rocky Mountain Fur Companys] expedition [in the summer of 1823] end so violently when the original intention was to trade peacefully with the Native American groups along the Missouri River?
