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Title

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.

Author

North American Fur Trade Conference (6th : 1991 : Mackinac Island, Mich.)

Publication

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press ; [Mackinac Island, Mich.] : Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940-
• Eccles, W. J. (William John)
• Heldman, Donald P.

Description

xx, 536 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm

Summary

• The Fur Trade Revisited is a collection of twenty-eight essays selected from the more than fifty presentations made at the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference held on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the fall of 1991. Essays contained in this important new interpretive work focus on the history, archaeology, and literature of a fascinating, growing area of scholarly investigation.
• Underscoring the work's multifaceted approach is an introductory essay by Lily McAuley titled "Memories of a Trapper's Daughter." This vivid and compelling account of the fur-trade life sets a level of quality for what follows.
• Part one of The Fur Trade Revisited discusses eighteenth-century fur trade intersections with European markets. The essays in part two examine Native people and the strategies they employed to meet demands placed on them by the market for furs. Part three examines the origins, motives, and careers of those who actually participated in the fur trade.
• Part four focuses attention on the indigenous fur-trade culture and subsequent archaeology in the area around Mackinac Island, Michigan, while part five contains studies focusing on the fur-trade culture in other parts of North America. Part six assesses the fur trade after 1870 and part seven contains evaluations of the critical historical and literary interpretations prevalent in fur-trade scholarship.

Subject

• Fur trade > North America > History > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Memories of a Trapper's Daughter: Banquet Address of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference / Lily McAuley -- Exchange Patterns in the European Market for North American Furs and Skins, 1720-1760 / Thomas Wien -- British Capital in the Fur Trade: John Strettell and John Fraser / Harry W. Duckworth -- Articulation of the Lakota Mode of Production and the Euro-American Fur Trade / Kathleen Pickering -- French and Spanish Colonial Trade Policies and the Fur Trade among the Caddoan Indians of the Trans-Mississippi South / Timothy 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 House / Lynda Gullason -- Looking at the Ledgers: Sauk and Mesquakie Trade Debts, 1820-1840 / Royce Kurtz -- "Half-Breed" Rolls and Fur Trade Families in the Great Lakes Region - An Introduction and Bibliography / James L. Hansen.
• The Career of Joseph La France, Coureur de Bois in the Upper Great Lakes / Helen Hornbeck Tanner -- The Cadottes: Five Generations of Fur Traders on Lake Superior / Theresa M. Schenck -- The Fear of Pillaging: Economic Folktales of the Great Lakes Fur Trade / Bruce M. White -- Roots in the Mohawk Valley: Sir William Johnson's Legacy in the North West Company / Heather Devine -- Faithful Service under Different Flags: A Socioeconomic Profile of the Columbia District, Hudson's Bay Company and the Upper Missouri Outfit, American Fur Company, 1825-1835 / William R. Swagerty and Dick A. Wilson -- Failure on the Columbia: Nathaniel Wyeth's Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company / Bradford R. Cole -- The Michilimackinac Misfortunes of Commissary Roberts / Peter Marshall -- Effects of the American Revolution on Fur-Trade Society at Michilimackinac / Keith R. Widder -- Apprentice Trader: Henry H. Sibley and American Fur at Mackinac / Rhoda R. Gilman.
• Crucifixes and Medallions from Michilimackinac / Charles J. Rinehart -- A Newly-Discovered Trade Gun Type / James R. Duncan -- When Rivers Were Roads: Deciphering the Role of Canoe Portages in the Western Lake Superior Fur Trade / Douglas A. Birk -- Origins of Fort Union: Archaeology and History / William J. Hunt, Jr. -- The Hudson's Bay Company in Southwestern Alberta, 1874-1905 / Henry C. Klassen -- Creating Corporate Images of the Fur Trade: The Hudson's Bay Company and Public Relations in the 1930s / Peter Geller -- Capt. Thierry Mallet: Adventurer, Businessman, Writer / Gwyneth Hoyle -- Long's Voyages and Travels: Fact and Fiction / Michael Blanar -- The H.B.C.'s Arctic Expedition 1836-1839: Dease's Field Notes as Compared to Simpson's Narrative / I. S. MacLaren -- Fur Trade Social History and the Public Historian: Some Other Recent Trends / Michael Payne.

ISBN

0870133489

LCCN

94011964

OCLC

ocm30155903

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries