The fur trade revisited : selected papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991 / Jennifer S.H. Brown, W.J. Eccles and Donald P. Heldman, editors.
By: Brown, Jennifer S. H
Contributor(s): Eccles, William John | Heldman, Donald P | North American Fur Trade Conference ((6: 1991: Mackinac Island, Mich). )
Language: English Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1994.Description: xx, 536p. : ill., maps, tables ; 26cm.ISBN: 0870133489
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Includes bibl. references and notes. - Maps also on end-papers. - Contents: I, Transatlantic fur trade markets and entrepreneurs. Exchange patterns in the European market, 1720-1760 / Thomas Wien; British capital in the fur trade / H.W. Duckworth; II, Native people and changing trade relations. Articulation of the Lakota mode of production / K. Pickering; French and Spanish colonial trade policies and the Caddoan Indians / T.K. Perttula; The flow of European trade goods into the western Great Lakes region, 1715-1760 / Dean L. Anderson; "No less than 7 different nations": ethnicity and culture contact at Fort George-Buckingham / L. Gullason; Looking at the ledgers: Sauk and Mesquakie trade debts, 1820-1840 / R. Kurtz; "Half-breed" rolls and fur trade families in the Great Lakes region / James L. Hansen; III, Becoming a trader: origins, lives and survival. The career of Joseph La France / H.H. Tanner; The Cadottes / T.M. Schenck; The fear of pillaging: economic folk tales of the Great Lakes fur trade / Bruce M. White; Roots in the Mohawk valley / H. Devine; Faithful service under different flags / W.R. Swagerty, Dick A. Wilson; Failure on the Columbia / Bradford R. Cole; IV, The fur trade at Mackinac. The Michilimackinac misfortunes of Commissary Roberts / Peter Marshall; Effects of the American revolution / K.R. Widder; Apprentice trader: Henry H. Sibley / R.R. Gilman; Crucifixes and medallions / C.J. Rinehart; V, Archaeology and material culture. A newly discovered trade gun type / James R. Duncan; When rivers were roads: deciphering the role of canoe portages in the western Lake Superor / D.A. Birk; Origins of Fort Union / W.J. Hunt, jr; VI, Into the twentieth century. The Hudson's Bay Company in southwestern Alberta, 1874-1905 / H.C. Klassen; Creating corporate images / P. Geller; Capt. Thierry Malet / G. Hoyle; VII, Fur trade literature and interpretations: issues and problems. Long's Voyages and travels / M. Blanar; The H.B.C.'s Arctic Expedition 1836-1839 / I.S. McLaren; Fur trade social history and the public historian / M. Payne.