Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade

by Carolyn Ives Gilman

Book Overview

Inspired by an exhibit of artifacts from the fur trade of the 1700s, this fascinating and attractive catalog includes a history of the fur trade and essays on various aspects of the early cross-cultural contacts between Indians and whites. Photos of tools, clothing, and trade items shown in the exhibit are accompanied by beautiful reproductions of eighteenth-century paintings and drawings, some in color.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873511565
• ISBN13: 9780873511568
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.1"