Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening the Far Northwest, 1821-1852

by Theodore J. Karamanski

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In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "brown gold." It and other furbearing animals were the targets of an extractive industry like gold mining. Hoping to make their fortunes with the Hudson's Bay Company, young Scots and Englishmen left their homes in the British Isles for the Canadian frontier. In the Far Northwest-northern British Columbia, the Yukon, the western Northwest Territories, and eastern Alaska-they collaborated with...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0806120932

ISBN13:9780806120935

Release Date:March 1988

Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.11 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"

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19th Century Business Business & Investing Commerce Economics History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) State & Local

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