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Author : JAMES. HANSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (964 download)
Download or read book WHEN SKINS WERE MONEY : A HISTORY OF THE FUR TRADE. written by JAMES. HANSON and published by . This book was released on with total page 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 : 4.3/5 (93 download)
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 : Albert Lord Belden
Publisher : New York : Peltries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
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 : Paul Chrisler Phillips
Publisher : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
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 744 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.
Author : Mancer Backus
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Fur and the Fur Trade written by Mancer Backus and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written before the sensibilities that now exist concerning the use and wearing of real fur, this is an account of the fur trade in Canada, Russia and Britain in the nineteenth century. The writer begins by describing the difference between the outer coat (that which we would think of as the 'wearable' fur) and the undercoat that can be used for felting. He then describes the trading and types of fur in demand.
Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The World of the American West [2 volumes] written by Gordon Morris Bakken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing everything from the details of everyday life to recreation and warfare, this two-volume work examines the social, political, intellectual, and material culture of the American "Old West," from the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the end of the 19th century. What was life really like for ordinary people in the Old West? What did they eat, wear, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia provides readers with an engaging and detailed portrayal of the Old West through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set explores various aspects of social history—family, politics, religion, economics, and recreation—to illuminate aspects of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between the individual and the greater world. Readers will be exposed to both objective reality and subjective views of a particular culture; as a result, they can create a cohesive, accurate impression of life in the Old West during the second half of the 1800s.
Author : Daniel Francis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773560815
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Partners in Furs written by Daniel Francis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The patterns and course of contact between traders from Europe and the Indian populations are described and both English and French sources are used to reveal the competition between the two groups of traders and its impact on the native people. As the Hudson's Bay Company was the one permanent European presence during the period, this ethnohistorical study makes extensive use of unpublished HBC papers. The authors also examine such issues as the rise of a homeguard population at the trading posts, the trading captain system, the development of hamily hunting territories, and the issue of dependence and interdependence. Partners in Furs provides new insight and makes a significant contribution to current scholarly inquiry into the impact of the fur trade on the native populations.
Author : Donald Edward Davis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820360465
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The American Chestnut written by Donald Edward Davis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. Although historical evidence suggests the natural distribution of the American chestnut extended across more than four hundred thousand square miles of territory—an area stretching from eastern Maine to southeast Louisiana—stands of the trees could also be found in parts of Wisconsin, Michigan, Washington State, and Oregon. An important natural resource, chestnut wood was preferred for woodworking, fencing, and building construction, as it was rot resistant and straight grained. The hearty and delicious nuts also fed wildlife, people, and livestock. Ironically, the tree that most piqued the emotions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americans has virtually disappeared from the eastern United States. After a blight fungus was introduced into the United States during the late nineteenth century, the American chestnut became functionally extinct. Although the virtual eradication of the species caused one of the greatest ecological catastrophes since the last ice age, considerable folklore about the American chestnut remains. Some of the tree’s history dates to the very founding of our country, making the story of the American chestnut an integral part of American cultural and environmental history. The American Chestnut tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree’s impact on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American life, including the decorative and culinary arts. While he pays much attention to the importation of chestnut blight and the tree’s decline as a dominant species, the author also evaluates efforts to restore the American chestnut to its former place in the eastern deciduous forest, including modern attempts to genetically modify the species.
Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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 1902 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. A. Nicholay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265829752
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Historical Account of Skins and Furs written by J. A. Nicholay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Account of Skins and Furs: Brief History of Furs and the Fur Trade, Their Statistics and Use, Compiled for General Information, With a Description of the Collection Exhibited by Messrs. Nicholay and Sons, in the Great Industrial Exhibition The lynx cat is mostly found in Canada, and is a distinct variety of the lynx species; it is exported, and made into cloak and coat linings, and is very suitable for cold climates, and very moderate in price. 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.
Author : W. Raymond Wood
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806150440
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors written by W. Raymond Wood and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitors—among them the German prince-explorer Maximilian of Wied, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, and American painter-author George Catlin—have long been the primary sources of information on the cultures of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, the peoples who met the first fur traders in the area. This book, by a team of anthropologists, is the first thorough account of the fur trade at Fort Clark to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record. The Mandans built a village in about 1822 near the site of what would become Fort Clark; after the 1837 smallpox epidemic that decimated them, the village was occupied by Arikaras until they abandoned it in 1862. Because it has never been plowed, the site of Fort Clark and the adjacent Mandan/Arikara village are rich in archaeological information. The authors describe the environmental and cultural setting of the fort (named after William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition), including the social profile of the fur traders who lived there. They also chronicle the histories of the Mandans and the Arikaras before and during the occupation of the post and the village. The authors conclude by assessing the results—published here for the first time—of the archaeological program that investigated the fort and adjacent Indian villages at Fort Clark State Historic Site. By vividly depicting the conflict and cooperation in and around the fort, this book reveals the various cultures’ interdependence.
Author : Carl P. Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626369291
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men written by Carl P. Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and tools is also a lively history. The era of the mountain man is distinct in American history, and Russell’s exhaustive coverage on the guns, traps, knives, axes, and other iron tools of this era, along with meticulous appendices, is astonishing. The result of thirty-five years of painstaking research, this is the definitive guide to the tools of the mountain men.
Author : Abraham Gottlieb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258489052
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Fur Truths written by Abraham Gottlieb and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leila Philip
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1538755211
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Beaverland written by Leila Philip and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversized role in American history and its future. She follows fur trappers who lead her through waist high water, fur traders and fur auctioneers, as well as wildlife managers, PETA activists, Native American environmental vigilantes, scientists, engineers, and the colorful group of activists known as beaver believers. Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila Philip traces the beaver’s profound influence on our nation’s early economy and feverish western expansion, its first corporations and multi-millionaires. In her pursuit of this weird and wonderful animal, she introduces us to people whose lives are devoted to the beaver, including a Harvard scientist from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, who uses drones to create 3-dimensional images of beaver dams; and an environmental restoration consultant in the Chesapeake whose nickname is the “beaver whisperer”. What emerges is a poignant personal narrative, a startling portrait of the secretive world of the contemporary fur trade, and an engrossing ecological and historical investigation of these heroic animals who, once trapped to the point of extinction, have returned to the landscape as one of the greatest conservation stories of the 20th century. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Beaverland reveals the profound ways in which one odd creature and the trade surrounding it has shaped history, culture, and our environment. The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection
Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803263215
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)
Download or read book The American Fur Trade of the Far West written by Hiram Martin Chittenden and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1986-06-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Fur Trade of the Far West is the premier history of its subject. Its publication in 1902 invited historians and general readers to look more closely at the intricate connec-tions of the fur trade with the development of North America. Hiram Chittenden provides a perspective or overall outline of the fur trade that, after nearly a century, remains sound. Volume 2 of this Bison Book edition follows the traps and trails of such colorful characters as Ezekial Williams, Hugh Glass, Mike Fink, and John Colter. Described here are the explorers, missionaries, government survey parties, and Indian tribes of the fur trade West, and the geography that often determined their success or failure. Nine appendixes containing miscellaneous primary materials precede a bibliography and index. A new feature is a foreword by William R. Swagerty.
Author : John Dunn
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Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Oregon Territory and British North-American Fur Trade written by John Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
