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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079244
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 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.

The American Fur Trade of the Far West

Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Fur Trade of the Far West written by Hiram Martin Chittenden and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West

Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803273023
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance,? writes Janet Lecompte in her introduction to French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West. They were the first to navigate the Mississippi and its tributaries, and they founded St. Louis and New Orleans. Though France lost her North American possessions in 1763, thousands of her natives remained on the continent. Many of them were voyageurs for Hudson?s Bay Company, whose descendants would join American fur trade companies plying the trans-Mississippi West. ø This volume documents the fact that in the nineteenth century Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the United States. Twenty-two biographies, collected from LeRoy R. Hafen?s classic ten-volume The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, represent a variety of origins and social classes, types of work, and trading areas. Here are trappers who joined John Jacob Astor?s ill-fated fur venture on the Pacific, St. Louis traders who hauled goods to Spanish New Mexico along the Santa Fe Trail, and those who traded with Indians in the western plains and mountains.

American Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book American Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My First Years in the Fur Trade

Author : George Nelson
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873514125
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book My First Years in the Fur Trade written by George Nelson and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and perceptive account of the fur trade seen through the eyes of a teenaged boy.

Calendar of the American Fur Company's Papers: 1841-1849

Author : Grace Lee Nute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calendar of the American Fur Company's Papers: 1841-1849 written by Grace Lee Nute and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making the Voyageur World

Author : Carolyn Podruchny
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803287909
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Making the Voyageur World written by Carolyn Podruchny and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed analysis of their unique occupational culture, Making the Voyageur World reexamines the French Canadian workers who dominated the fur trade industry and became iconic images of North American lore.

Fur

Author : Jonathan Faiers
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300227205
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Fur written by Jonathan Faiers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of fur's fashionable and controversial history The first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, politics, and, of course, fashion. This material has a long, complex, and rich history, culminating in recent and ongoing anti-fur debates. Jonathan Faiers discusses how fur--long praised for its warmth, softness, and connotation of status--became so controversial, at the center of campaigns against animal cruelty and the movement toward ethical fashion. At the same time, fake fur now faces a backlash of its own, given the environmental impact of its manufacture and its links to fast fashion. Divided into five sections--dedicated to hair, pelt, coat, skin, and fleece--the book surveys not only the politics of fur but also its centrality to western fashion, the tactile pleasure it gives, and its use in literature, art, and film. This thoughtfully reasoned, eloquently written, and spectacularly illustrated examination of fur is both timely and essential, filling a gap in fashion scholarship and appealing to a broad audience.

Souvenirs of the Fur Trade

Author : Mary Malloy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0873658337
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Souvenirs of the Fur Trade written by Mary Malloy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American mariners made more than 175 voyages to the Northwest Coast during the half-century after 1787. The art and culture of Northwest Coast Indians so intrigued American sailors that the collecting of ethnographic artifacts became an important secondary trade. Malloy has brought details about these early collections together for the first time.

N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fur Hunters of the Far West

Author : Alexander Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Fur Hunters of the Far West written by Alexander Ross and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guide Book and Standard

Author : American Rabbit and Cavy Breeders Association, Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Guide Book and Standard written by American Rabbit and Cavy Breeders Association, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRADE GOODS;

Author : JAMES A. HANSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780912611204
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Listening to the Fur Trade

Author : Daniel Robert Laxer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228009812
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Listening to the Fur Trade written by Daniel Robert Laxer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and – very occasionally – bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time. Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entailed gift-giving: reciprocity was performed with dances, songs, and firearm salutes. Indigenous protocols of ceremony and treaty-making were widely adopted by fur traders, who supplied materials and technologies that sometimes changed how these ceremonies sounded. Within trading companies, masters and servants were on opposite ends of the social ladder but shared songs in the canoes and lively dances during the long winters at the trading posts. While the fur trade was propelled by economic and political interests, Listening to the Fur Trade uncovers the songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.

The Fur Trade of the American West

Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297326
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book The Fur Trade of the American West written by David J. Wishart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In stressing the exploitation and destruction of the physical and human environment rather than the usual frontier romanticism, David Wishart has provided for students of the trans-Mississippi fur trade a valuable service."--Journal of the Early Republic. A standard reference work [that] should be required reading for all students of the American west."--Pacific Historical Review. "The whole [fur trade] system is traced out from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St. Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe. Such factors as capital formation, shifting commercial institutions, the role of advanced market information, and the nature, kinds, costs, and speed of transportation are all worked into the story, as is the relationship of the whole fur trade to national and international business cycles. This is an impressive achievement for a book so brief. . . . [It] opens out onto new methodological vistas and paradigms in western history."--William H. Goetzmann, New Mexico Historical Review David J. Wishart is a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for distin-guished books in American geography, sponsored by the Association of American Geographers for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, also available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Author : State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings.

Birchbark Brigade

Author : Cris Peterson
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 159078426X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Birchbark Brigade written by Cris Peterson and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the North American fur trade, based on primary sources. The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. Furs harvested by Ojibwa natives in the north woods ended up on the sleeves and hems of French princesses and Chinese emperors. Felt hats on the heads of every European businessman began as beaver pelts carried in birchbark canoes to trading posts dotting the wilderness. Iron tools, woolen blankets, and calico cloth manufactured in England found their way to wigwams along the remote rivers of North America. The fur trade influenced every aspect of life—from how Europeans related to the Indians, how and where settlements were built, to how our nation formed. Drawing on primary sources, including the diaries of Ojibwa, American, and French traders of the period, this Society of School Librarians International Honor Book gives readers a glimpse of a little-known story from our past.