Hiram M. Chittenden

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Hiram M. Chittenden, 1916

Hiram Martin Chittenden (1858–1917) was a leading historian of the American West, especially the fur trade. A graduate of West Point, he was the Seattle district engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers (April 1906 – September 1908) for whom the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Seattle, Washington, were named. Dodds says, "His works on the Yellowstone, the fur trade, and on Missouri River steamboating were long recognized as definitive....His style was formal, clear, and undramatic. His works contain a mass of detail. He was typical of the Progressive era of American history in his strong belief in progress and in 'the divine mission of the Anglo-Saxon.

WRITINGS (edited)

Chittenden is best known as a scholar with historical volumes, tour guides, and poetry:



The Yellowstone National Park, Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1895.

The American fur trade of the far West
A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and the Overland Commerce with Santa Fe.
New York.  F.P. Harper. (Three volumes)  1902
      Vol. I        Vol. II        Vol. III

History of early steamboat navigation on the Missouri river: life and adventures of Joseph La Barge
New York.  Francis P. Harper.  (1903).  (Two volumes)
      Vol. I        Vol. II

Life and Letters of Father de Smet’ with A. T. Richardson, 1905. (Four volumes)
      Vol. I        Vol. II        Vol. III        Vol. IV

War or Peace, 1910.

The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive
Cincinnati.  Stewart & Kidd company.  1920

Verse, Seattle: Holly Press, 1916. (poetry)