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Furs and frontiers in the far north : the contest among native and foreign nations for the Bering Strait fur trade / John R. Bockstoce ; foreword by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.

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"This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and members of fifty native nations competed and...

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Main Author: Bockstoce, John R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Series:Lamar series in western history.
Subjects:
Fur trade > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
Merchants > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
Eskimos > Hunting > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
Russians > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
British > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
Alaska > Commerce > Russia > History > 19th century.
Russia > Commerce > Alaska > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Commerce > Alaska > History > 19th century.
Alaska > Commerce > Great Britain > History > 19th century.

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Call Number: F951 .B63 2009
F951 .B63 2009 Aged to lost

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