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The Fur Trade of the American West: A Geographical Synthesis Paperback - 1992

by David J. Wishart


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"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 distinguished books in American geography, sponsored by the Association of American Geographers for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, also available in a Bison Books edition.

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'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.

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  • Title The Fur Trade of the American West: A Geographical Synthesis
  • Author David J. Wishart
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Edition
  • Pages 237
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-11-01
  • ISBN 9780803297326 / 0803297327
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 6.1 x 0.58 in (22.99 x 15.49 x 1.47 cm)
  • Reading level 1590
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Plains
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.) - History - To 1848, Fur trade - West (U.S.) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92-15111
  • Dewey Decimal Code 978

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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 distinguished books in American geography, sponsored by the Association of American Geographers for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, also available in a Bison Books edition.
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