Library Tutorials
Skip to main content
close
font 1 font 2 font 3
Reset to standard size
Font size options
Increase or decrease the font size for this website by clicking on the 'A's.
Yellow on Black White on Black Soft Greys Black on Linen Black on White
Reset to default contrast
Contrast options
Choose a color combination to give the most comfortable contrast.
Historic Provo

ETIENNE PROVOST

Etienne Provost was born in 1785 in Chambly, Quebec and by 1814 was exploring, trapping and trading in what would become the western United States. He made his home in St. Louis, Missouri, and worked for a number of different exporing and trapping companies but most of his business was out in what would become Utah and New Mexico. Provost generally had several enterprises going at once.

Sources:
Tykal, Jack B. Etienne Provost: Man of the Mountains (Liberty, Utah: Eagle's View Pub. Co., 1989).

Chittenden, Hiram Martin. The American Fur Trade of the Far West (New York: The Press of the Pioneers, 1935).

Creer, Leland Hargrave. The Founding of an Empire (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, [1947]).

Moffitt, John Clifton. The Story of Provo, Utah. (Provo: J.C. Moffitt, 1975).