Indians in the fur trade : their role as trappers, hunters, and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870 : with a new introduction

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Indians in the fur trade : their role as trappers, hunters, and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870 : with a new introduction / Arthur J. Ray.

Summary:

"Indians in the Fur Trade makes extensive use of previously unpublished Hudson's Bay Company archival materials and other available data to reconstruct the cultural geography of the West at the time of early contact, illustrating many of the rapid cultural transformations with maps and diagrams. Now with a new introduction and an update on sources, it will continue to be of great use to students and scholars of Native and Canadian history."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0802041337
ISBN: 9780802041333
ISBN: 0802079806
ISBN: 9780802079800
Physical Description: xxxiv, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, ©1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Originally published: 1974.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Trade rivalries, inter-tribal warfare, and migration -- Land and life in the western interior before 1763 -- Traders and middlemen -- Arms, brandy, beads, and sundries -- Migrations, epidemics, and population changes, 1763-1821 -- The destruction of fur and game animals -- New economic opportunities -- Economic dependency and the fur trade: contrasting trends -- Land and life: a changing mosaic -- The changing demographic picture after 1821 -- Declining opportunities in a changing fur trade -- End of a way of life.