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

by Theodore J. Karamanski

Book Overview

In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "brown gold." It and other furbearing animals were the targets of an extractive industry like gold mining. Hoping to make their fortunes with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806118334
• ISBN13: 9780806118338
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 330 Pages