Examines the North American Indian participation in the fur trade and traditional ecological practices.
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Examines the North American Indian participation in the fur trade and traditional ecological practices.
"Many written histories of the fur trade attempt to present both the events and the spirit of the exploration of, and rivalry over, western Canada. These histories vary from the fact-ridden dryness of historical chronicle to the more popular romantic depiction of a way of life l…
The Fur Trade Revisited is a collection of twenty-eight essays selected from the more than fifty presentations made at the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference held on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the fall of 1991. Essays contained in this important new interpretive work f…
The Fur Trade Revisited is a collection of twenty-eight essays selected from the more than fifty presentations made at the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference held on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the fall of 1991. Essays contained in this important new interpretive work f…
Gives full account of the changing geography of the Okhotsk seaboard and Kamchatka peninsula as well as difficulties of supplying food to these far distant areas.
Gives full account of the changing geography of the Okhotsk seaboard and Kamchatka peninsula as well as difficulties of supplying food to these far distant areas.
Describes the social world of the traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. Examines differences between the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and their effects on Indian-white relations.
Describes the social world of the traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. Examines differences between the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and their effects on Indian-white relations.
Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1811 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 r…
"Furs is what brings us," remarked an early trader in the Oregon Country. He added, however, that "the difficulty of getting the necessary supplies will continue to operate against it," located as it was "on the worst side of the Rocky Mountains." Fortunately, the discovery in 1…
Description of maps and charts made by the Hudson's Bay Company in northern and western Canada, chiefly based on the Company Archives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Numerous plates, lists of maps, glossary of terms.
The Fort Langley journals, 1827-30
by Maclachlan, Morag, Suttles, Wayne
fromPioneers of British Columbia
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Type: Book
The Fort Langley journals, 1827-30
by Maclachlan, Morag, Suttles, Wayne P.
fromPioneers of British Columbia
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Type: Book
"In the summer of 1827 a party left Fort Vancouver to found Fort Langley on the Lower Fraser to link fur-rich New Caledonia to the Pacific." "One of the responsibilities of the person in charge of a fur trade post was to maintain a daily record or assign that task to a clerk. Th…
"In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort, …