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This first-ever fully documented biography of Jackson Hole's namesake chronicles the life of David Jackson and the Rocky Mountain fur trade from a business perspective, while highlighting pragmatic realities of the "skin game." Though scholarly, it is wr

In 1836, thirty-one-year-old William Jackson along with his wife Martha and four children booked a one-way passage from England to the United States. Somehow, they had scraped together enough money to leave their families and migrate in search of a better life. It can be safely surmised that it was an act of both courage and hope. One can only wonder what thoughts and emotions stirred the Jackson family's souls as they disembarked the Cornubia at New York harbor and began a new life in a new country. Could they begin to imagine how their decision would reverberate eight generations later?