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- catalog abstract "The Story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Lavender relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks, who competed with Britain's Hudson's Bay Company for fur resources of the Great Lakes region and the upper Missouri River country. Within this framework of contest and competition, Lavender shows how the American Fur Company learned to exploit the needs and wants of Indian tribes to gain a superior economic position over the British. The brutal and bloody rivalry helped Ramsay Crooks develop the techniques for transporting furs, supplying trappers, and selling pelts that made fur trapping such an integral economic activity in early U.S history.".
- catalog contributor b10699098.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Michilimackinac: the key and the door -- Robert Dickson and the ways of the trade -- The American stir -- Citizenship by necessity -- The meeting at La Charette -- Bold hopes -- Frustrations -- Ripostes -- By sea -- And by land -- The harrowing -- The pawns of war -- Small fights for large stakes -- Sweet fruits of defeat -- Bright new vistas, American style -- Taste of power -- The breath of failure -- The fist closes -- Pressures -- Triumph -- Defeats -- Tensions -- The colossus -- Strangling the Missouri -- The spasms of change.".
- catalog description "The Story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Lavender relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks, who competed with Britain's Hudson's Bay Company for fur resources of the Great Lakes region and the upper Missouri River country. Within this framework of contest and competition, Lavender shows how the American Fur Company learned to exploit the needs and wants of Indian tribes to gain a superior economic position over the British. The brutal and bloody rivalry helped Ramsay Crooks develop the techniques for transporting furs, supplying trappers, and selling pelts that made fur trapping such an integral economic activity in early U.S history.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 490 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Fist in the wilderness.".
- catalog identifier "0803279760 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fist in the wilderness.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Fist in the wilderness.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "381/.456753/0973 21".
- catalog subject "American Fur Company History.".
- catalog subject "Fur trade United States History.".
- catalog subject "HD9944.U48 A47 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Michilimackinac: the key and the door -- Robert Dickson and the ways of the trade -- The American stir -- Citizenship by necessity -- The meeting at La Charette -- Bold hopes -- Frustrations -- Ripostes -- By sea -- And by land -- The harrowing -- The pawns of war -- Small fights for large stakes -- Sweet fruits of defeat -- Bright new vistas, American style -- Taste of power -- The breath of failure -- The fist closes -- Pressures -- Triumph -- Defeats -- Tensions -- The colossus -- Strangling the Missouri -- The spasms of change.".
- catalog title "The fist in the wilderness / David Lavender ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by David J. Wishart.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".