White fox and icy seas in the western Arctic : the fur trade, transportation, and change in the earl...
White fox and icy seas in the western Arctic : the fur trade, transportation, and change in the earl...
White fox and icy seas in the western Arctic : the fur trade, transportation, and change in the early twentieth century / John R. Bockstoce ; foreword by William Barr ; original maps by Bill Nelson.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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G 2020/1031
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English
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xv, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part 1. Introduction. Fort Ross: Founding and Abandonment, 1937 to 1948 ; White Fox: From the Trapper to the Retail Customer -- Part 2. Development of the Western arctic fur trade to 1914. The Advance of the Maritime Trade in the Bering Strait Region ; Expansion of the Trade in Northern Alaska and W...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
[2018]
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"In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world’s harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills. John R. Bockstoce, a leading scholar of the Arctic fur tra...
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Full title
White fox and icy seas in the western Arctic : the fur trade, transportation, and change in the early twentieth century / John R. Bockstoce ; foreword by William Barr ; original maps by Bill Nelson.
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Fur trade, transportation, and change in the early twentieth century
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The Lamar Series in Western History
Maps on lining-papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-310) and index.
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©2018
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G 2020/1031
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74VKaZoo3rXl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZoo3rXl
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ISBN
0300221797 (hbk : alk. paper)
9780300221794 (hbk : alk. paper)
DDC
381.43970998
MMS ID
991024292378902626
