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The Fur Trade And Early Western Exploration
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Author : Clarence A. Vandiveer
language : en
Publisher: New York : Cooper Square Publishers
Release Date : 1971
The Fur Trade And Early Western Exploration written by Clarence A. Vandiveer and has been published by New York : Cooper Square Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with History categories.
The Fur Trade And Early Western Exploration Classic Reprint
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Author : Clarence A. Vandiveer
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-25
The Fur Trade And Early Western Exploration Classic Reprint written by Clarence A. Vandiveer and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-25 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Fur-Trade and Early Western Exploration About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Early Waterways And Portages
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Author : Clarence A. VanDiveer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03
Early Waterways And Portages written by Clarence A. VanDiveer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with categories.
Fur Trade And Exploration
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Author : Theodore J. Karamanski
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Fur Trade And Exploration written by Theodore J. Karamanski and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Discusses the role of the Hudson's Bay Company and its fur traders in the exploration of northern B.C., the western NWT, the Yukon and eastern Alaska.
Fur Fortune And Empire The Epic History Of The Fur Trade In America
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Author : Eric Jay Dolin
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Fur Fortune And Empire The Epic History Of The Fur Trade In America written by Eric Jay Dolin and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with History categories.
A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010 Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan Award Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place "A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." —Los Angeles Times As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became immediately apparent, however, from the Indians clad in deer skins and "good furs" was that Hudson had discovered something just as tantalizing. The news of Hudson's 1609 voyage to America ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent, teeming with untapped natural resources. The result was the creation of an American fur trade, which fostered economic rivalries and fueled wars among the European powers, and later between the United States and Great Britain, as North America became a battleground for colonization and imperial aspirations. In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, and buffalos were slaughtered, used for their precious pelts that were tailored into extravagant hats, coats, and sleigh blankets. To read Fur, Fortune, and Empire then is to understand how North America was explored, exploited, and settled, while its native Indians were alternately enriched and exploited by the trade. As Dolin demonstrates, fur, both an economic elixir and an agent of destruction, became inextricably linked to many key events in American history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, as well as to the relentless pull of Manifest Destiny and the opening of the West. This work provides an international cast beyond the scope of any Hollywood epic, including Thomas Morton, the rabble-rouser who infuriated the Pilgrims by trading guns with the Indians; British explorer Captain James Cook, whose discovery in the Pacific Northwest helped launch America's China trade; Thomas Jefferson who dreamed of expanding the fur trade beyond the Mississippi; America's first multimillionaire John Jacob Astor, who built a fortune on a foundation of fur; and intrepid mountain men such as Kit Carson and Jedediah Smith, who sliced their way through an awe inspiring and unforgiving landscape, leaving behind a mythic legacy still resonates today. Concluding with the virtual extinction of the buffalo in the late 1800s, Fur, Fortune, and Empire is an epic history that brings to vivid life three hundred years of the American experience, conclusively demonstrating that the fur trade played a seminal role in creating the nation we are today.
Rocky Mountain Rendezvous
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Author : Fred R. Gowans
language : en
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Release Date : 2005
Rocky Mountain Rendezvous written by Fred R. Gowans and has been published by Gibbs Smith Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
An excellent guide for mountain-man enthusiasts and an intriguing exploration of the West, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous focuses on the fur-trading rendezvous that took place from 1825-1840 in the Central Rocky Mountains. Originally commercial gatherings where furs were traded for necessities such as traps, guns, horses, and other supplies, they evolved into rich social events that were pivotal in shaping the early American West. Carefully crafted and compiled from primary sources, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous includes fascinating text by Gowans accompanied by firsthand accounts of 16 rendezvous from scientists, artists, military personnel, government explorers, and missionaries. Their diaries, journals, narratives, and books, along with Gowan's careful research, are illustrated with photographs and drawings. Maps pinpoint the location of each rendezvous, and photos depict the site today.
Trading Beyond The Mountains
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Author : Richard S. Mackie
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Trading Beyond The Mountains written by Richard S. Mackie and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with History categories.
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson�s Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson�s Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson�s Bay Company�s employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.
White Fox And Icy Seas In The Western Arctic
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Author : John R. Bockstoce
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-20
White Fox And Icy Seas In The Western Arctic written by John R. Bockstoce and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Business & Economics categories.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- OTHER PUBLICATIONS BY JOHN R. BOCKSTOCE -- CONTENTS -- Foreword by William Barr -- Preface -- Part 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1. Fort Ross: Founding and Abandonment, 1937 to 1948 -- 2. White Fox: From the Trapper to the Retail Customer -- Part 2 DEVELOPMENT OF THE WESTERN ARCTIC FUR TRADE TO 1914 -- 3. The Advance of the Maritime Trade in the Bering Strait Region -- 4. Expansion of the Trade in Northern Alaska and Western Arctic Canada -- Part 3 HEYDAY OF THE WESTERN ARCTIC FUR TRADE, 1914 TO 1929 -- 5. Revolution and Civil War on the Chukchi Peninsula -- 6. Growth of the Trade in Northern Alaska -- 7. Competition among Traders in Western Arctic Canada -- Part 4 DECLINE OF THE WESTERN ARCTIC FUR TRADE, 1929 TO CA. 1950 -- 8. State Ownership of the Trade on the Chukchi Peninsula -- 9. Contraction of Trade in Northern Alaska -- 10. Toward Monopoly Control in Western Arctic Canada -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Early Fur Trade On The Northern Plains
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Author : W. Raymond Wood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-11
Early Fur Trade On The Northern Plains written by W. Raymond Wood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11 with History categories.
Long before their first contact with whites, the Mandan and Hidatsa villagers along the Missouri River in what is now central North Dakota had established a prosperous center for a vast intertribal trade network across the Northern Plains. Early white fur traders, learning of the existence of these villages, were quickly drawn to them. French, British, and Canadian traders were the first to arrive. Representatives of the Montreal-based North West Company were soon followed to the Missouri by employees of the rival Hudson’s Bay Company, and for nearly thirty years the two groups competed for the beaver pelts collected by the Mandans and Hidatsas from tribes farther west. Contact with the Canadian traders, and later with others who ascended the Missouri from Saint Louis, had a profound effect on the tribes, for it introduced Euro-American culture and trade goods that led to the extinction of their way of life. There is especially good documentation of the dealings between the Mandans and Hidatsas and the whites for the period 1790 to 1806, when several literate traders visited the Indian villages and recorded their experiences and impressions in lively, colorful narratives. In this book are presented new, dependable, annotated transcriptions of five of the most important of these documents, the narratives of the traders John Macdonell, David Thompson, François-Antoine Larocque (two journals), and Charles McKenzie. Through the narratives and the editors’ own thorough historical introduction, W. Raymond Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen reexamine the history of the fur trade in the North and provide fresh insight into that shadowy period. New maps show in detail the routes of the trader-narrators, and the appendix provides useful statistics, inventories, and financial accounts of the fur trade of the era. Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains will be of use not only to scholars of the fur trade and anthropologists but also to all those interested in the exploration and early history of the vast Northern Plains.
The Fur Hunters Of The Far West
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Author : Alexander Ross
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1956
The Fur Hunters Of The Far West written by Alexander Ross and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with History categories.
Alexander Ross offers a completely authentic account of the earliest attempts by men of European background to come to grips with the climate, geography, and inhabitants of the Northwest at a time when resourcefulness and daring were prime virtues. It offers, moreover, an on-the-scenes interpretation of the conflict between American and British interests, their rivalry for the vast wealth in Northwest furs, the conflict between free trade and corporate enterprise in the wilderness, and the conflict with the North West Company itself. Ross himself - a Scotsman by birth, at one time a trader for John Jacob Astor and the Americans - emerges as one of the heroic figures of both American and British frontier history. He recounts with frankness, excellent perspective, and a fine sense of humor the human adventures of which he was a part.