Fort Ross: Founding and Abandonment, 1937 to 1948
This chapter recounts the brief history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s trading post at the nexus of the Western Arctic and Eastern Arctic shipping routes. Difficult ice conditions forced the company to relocate the post farther south; nevertheless the post’s short existence serves as a paradigm for t...
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Yale University Press
2018
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300221794.003.0001 |
| Summary: | This chapter recounts the brief history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s trading post at the nexus of the Western Arctic and Eastern Arctic shipping routes. Difficult ice conditions forced the company to relocate the post farther south; nevertheless the post’s short existence serves as a paradigm for the larger story of the rise and decline of the arctic fur trade. |
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