Growth of the Trade in Northern Alaska
This chapter examines the rise in the number of trading posts and the population dispersal that took place in Northern Alaska in response to the quest for white fox pelts, the price of which rose throughout the 1920s. It also discusses the loss of the schooners Arctic and Lady Kindersley.
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Yale University Press
2018
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300221794.003.0006 |
| Summary: | This chapter examines the rise in the number of trading posts and the population dispersal that took place in Northern Alaska in response to the quest for white fox pelts, the price of which rose throughout the 1920s. It also discusses the loss of the schooners Arctic and Lady Kindersley. |
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