Fist in the Wilderness Paperback - 1998
by David Sievert Lavender; Introduction by David J. Wishart
An oft-told story from different perspectives, the history of the American fur trade is here placed within the overall rivalry for empire between Britain and the United States. David Lavender focuses on men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks who learned to exploit the needs and wants of Indian tribes to gain a superior economic position over the British and made fur trading an integral economic activity in early U.S. history. Maps.
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The Story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Lavender relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks, who competed with Britain's Hudson's Bay Company for fur resources of the Great Lakes region and the upper Missouri River country. Within this framework of contest and competition, Lavender shows how the American Fur Company learned to exploit the needs and wants of Indian tribes to gain a superior economic position over the British. The brutal and bloody rivalry helped Ramsay Crooks develop the techniques for transporting furs, supplying trappers, and selling pelts that made fur trapping such an integral economic activity in early U.S history.
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- Title Fist in the Wilderness
- Author David Sievert Lavender; Introduction by David J. Wishart
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Pages 498
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
- Date 1998-05-01
- ISBN 9780803279766 / 0803279760
- Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.05 x 6.07 x 1.05 in (22.99 x 15.42 x 2.67 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Cultural Region: Great Lakes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects Fur trade - United States - History, American Fur Company - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97051210
- Dewey Decimal Code 381.456
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