The Fur Trade Gamble

Author : Lloyd Keith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874223361
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fur Trade Gamble written by Lloyd Keith and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of grand risk, fur moguls vied to command Northwest and China markets, gambling lives and capital on the price of beaver pelts, purchases of ships and trade goods, international commerce laws, and the effects of war.

Author : Paul Chrisler Phillips
Publisher : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fur Trade written by Paul Chrisler Phillips and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Indians of the American West to overseas influences, this book takes an extensive look at the fur trade. It details how it affected the history of North America and impacted the world economies.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fur Trade Review Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079244
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : M. M. Backus
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fur and the Fur Trade written by M. M. Backus and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1879 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Agnes C. Laut
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fur Trade of America written by Agnes C. Laut and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1921 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise Dickinson Rich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Book of the Fur Trade written by Louise Dickinson Rich and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Lord Belden
Publisher : New York : Peltries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fur Trade of America and Some of the Men who Made and Maintain it written by Albert Lord Belden and published by New York : Peltries. This book was released on 1917 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Francis Grant
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 0888644914
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Son of the Fur Trade written by John Francis Grant and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2008-11-21 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Grant (1833-1907), Metis, fur trader, rancher, and Riel-Resistance participant, documented his historical experiences in the northwestern US and Canada.

Author : William Fraser Tolmie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874223712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William F. Tolmie at Fort Nisqually written by William Fraser Tolmie and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish-born Hudson's Bay Company (HBe Chief Trader William Fraser Tolmie took charge of Fort Nisqually in 1943, but soon the International Boundary Treaty of 1846 between Great Britain and the United States spawned myriad legal and regulatory problems. In 2006, former Fort Nisqually Living History Museum manager Steve A. Anderson discovered volumes of Fort Nisqually's letter books at HBC Archives. He transcribed several, spanning from January 1850 to the threshold of Puget Sound's Indian War. The documents--more than 400 total--offer private conversations, weighty business discussions, gossip, political intrigue, patterns of commerce, deadly epidemics, and an eyewitness account of San Francisco's devastating fire, and present a rare British perspective on higher-level HBC and Puget Sound Agricultural Company (PSAe operations, as well as insight into conflicts that followed the 1846 treaty.