Fur, Fortune, and Empire is an epic history that brings to vivid life three hundred years of the American experience, conclusively demonstrating that the fur trade played a seminal role in creating the nation we are today.
When Skins Were Money tells the story of the exploration of a continent, of fortunes won and lost, and of political intrigue and war that accompanied the struggle for control of furs and the native people who supplied them.
Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila Philip traces the beaver's profound influence on our nation's early economy and feverish western expansion, its first corporations and multi-millionaires.
An early detailed history of the fur trade in the Missouri Valley and Southwest.
"This is the first published account of an oddly neglected aspect of American history - the racial and sexual confrontation of the Indian women and the white men on our frontiers.
This book examines in detail how the fur trade played a vital role in the colonization of North America and also carried weighty political and economic consequences for western Europe.
"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.
The author traces the development of a mutual dependency between Indian and European traders at the economic level that evolved into a significant cultural exchange as well.
The United States Government Fur Trade Factory System was a system of government non-profit trading with Native Americans that existed between 1795 and 1822..
An excellent guide for mountain-man enthusiasts and an intriguing exploration of the West, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous focuses on the fur-trading rendezvous that took place from 1825-1840 in the Central Rocky Mountains.
Firearms of the fur trade
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Guns on the early frontiers ; a history of firearms from colonial times through the years of the Western fur trade
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The Mode in Furs
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