Fur Trade and Exploration: The Opening of the Far Northwest

In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "brown gold." It and other furbearing animals were the targets of an extractive industry like gold mining. Hoping to make their fortunes with the Hudson’s Bay Company, young Scots and Englishmen left their homes in the British Isles for...

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Main Author: Karamanski, Theodore J.
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Published: Loyola eCommons 1988
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Online Access:https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/37
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spelling ftloyolauniv:oai:ecommons.luc.edu:facultybooks-1036 2024-10-20T14:10:58+00:00 Fur Trade and Exploration: The Opening of the Far Northwest Karamanski, Theodore J. 1988-03-01T08:00:00Z https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/37 unknown Loyola eCommons https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/37 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Faculty Books Fur Trade Discovery and Exploration 19th Century History United States History text 1988 ftloyolauniv 2024-09-24T23:52:40Z In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "brown gold." It and other furbearing animals were the targets of an extractive industry like gold mining. Hoping to make their fortunes with the Hudson’s Bay Company, young Scots and Englishmen left their homes in the British Isles for the Canadian frontier. In the Far Northwest-northern British Columbia, the Yukon, the western Northwest Territories, and eastern Alaska-they collaborated with Indians and French Canadians to send back as many pelts as possible in return for an allotment of trade goods. The extraordinary achievements of the trader-adverturers-such men as Samuel Black, John Bell, and Robert Campbell-have been overlooked by previous historians because their way was so difficult and their successes were so meager. Isolated at the end of 3,000 miles of canoe trails, in fierce competition with Russian and Indian traders, they always worked against the odds while at every turn the Bay Company withheld its support in order to conserve profits. https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/1036/thumbnail.jpg Text Northwest Territories Alaska Yukon Loyola University Chicago: Loyola eCommons Indian Northwest Territories Yukon
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Discovery and Exploration
19th Century
History
United States History
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Discovery and Exploration
19th Century
History
United States History
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Fur Trade and Exploration: The Opening of the Far Northwest
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description In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "brown gold." It and other furbearing animals were the targets of an extractive industry like gold mining. Hoping to make their fortunes with the Hudson’s Bay Company, young Scots and Englishmen left their homes in the British Isles for the Canadian frontier. In the Far Northwest-northern British Columbia, the Yukon, the western Northwest Territories, and eastern Alaska-they collaborated with Indians and French Canadians to send back as many pelts as possible in return for an allotment of trade goods. The extraordinary achievements of the trader-adverturers-such men as Samuel Black, John Bell, and Robert Campbell-have been overlooked by previous historians because their way was so difficult and their successes were so meager. Isolated at the end of 3,000 miles of canoe trails, in fierce competition with Russian and Indian traders, they always worked against the odds while at every turn the Bay Company withheld its support in order to conserve profits. https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/1036/thumbnail.jpg
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