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Author
Publisher
ECW Press / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Unexpectedly delightful reading -- there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore." -- National Post Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent's most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to the edge of the northern tundra....
Author
Series
Lakeside classics volume no. 32
Publisher
Barakaldo Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1831 a young Pennsylvanian, Zenas Leonard, embarked from St. Louis in a company of seventy men who had formed an expedition for the purpose of trapping furs and trading with the Indians in the Rocky Mountains. After four years of wandering which took him to the then strange land of Spanish California, he returned to his parental home in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, in the autumn of 1835, where he was greeted by his relatives as one returned...
Author
Publisher
Great Plains Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is a story about the fur trade and First Nations, and the development of northern Canada, seen and experienced not only through Leonard Flett s eyes, but also through the eyes of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.The lives of indigenous people in remote areas of northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the 1960s and 1970s are examined in detail. Flett s successful career with both the Hudson s Bay Company and the North West...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
The University of Alberta Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"[Stephen] offers fresh insight into the path a historic fur trading business took to become one of Canada's most recognizable retailers." -- Literary Review of Canada In Masters and Servants , Scott P. Stephen reveals startling truths about Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) workers. Rather than dedicating themselves body and soul to the Company's interests, these men were hired like domestic servants, joining a "household" with its attendant norms of duty...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Exiles in Indian Country weaves together the biographies of three men who cast their fortunes with the Western fur trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. John Tanner was a 'white Indian' who was taken captive and raised by Ottawa, and lived among the Ottawa and Ojibwa for thirty years, hunting across the northern forests and plains of present-day Ontario, Manitoba, and northern Minnesota. Dr. John McLoughlin fled the law in Quebec...
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