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Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages
Language
English
Description
"In the rich naturalist tradition of H Is for Hawk and The Soul of an Octopus, BEAVERLAND tells the tumultuous, eye-opening story of how beavers and the beaver fur trade shaped America's history, culture, and environment. Before the American empires of steel and coal and oil, before the railroads, there was the empire of fur. Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila Philip traces the beaver's profound influence on our...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon...
7) The denominators of the fur trade: an anthology of writings on the material culture of the fur trade
Author
Publisher
Socio-Technical Publications
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
Author
Series
American trails volume 12
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
xv, 381 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xvii, 442 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent, with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a...
14) Astoria
Author
Publisher
Binfords & Mort
Pub. Date
c1967
Edition
Clatsop ed.
Physical Desc
xxix, 475 p. : ill., maps, port. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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