Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening the Far Northwest, 1821-1852

by Karamanski Theodore J 1953- and Theodore J. Karamanski

In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "browngold." It and other fur-bearing animals were the targets of anextractive industry like gold mining. Hoping to make their fortuneswith the Hudson's Bay Company, young Scots and Englishmen lefttheir homes in the British Isles for the Canadian frontier. In the FarNorthwest -- northern British Columbia, the Yukon, the westernNorthwest Territories, and eastern Alaska -- they collaborated withIndians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774801441
• ISBN13: 9780774801447
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 330 Pages