The Fist in the WildernessU of Nebraska Press, 01.05.1998 - 490 Seiten 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. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men like Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and other legendary trappers, Lavender relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks who competed with Britain?s Hudson?s Bay Company for the 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. |
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Inhalt
The Pawns of War | 178 |
Small Fights for Large Stakes | 194 |
Sweet Fruits of Defeat | 209 |
Bright New Vistas American Style | 228 |
Taste of Power | 238 |
The Breath of Failure | 255 |
The Fist Closes | 277 |
Pressures | 294 |
The Colossus | 367 |
Strangling the Missouri | 382 |
The Spasms of Change | 398 |
A NOTE ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 420 |
425 | |
Citizenship by Necessity | 432 |
Frustrations | 439 |
By | 445 |
Triumph | 314 |
Defeats | 332 |
Tensions | 349 |
MAPS pp xxxxiii | 464 |
469 | |
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Aird American Fur Company Aricaras Astor Astoria barges beaver Bernard Pratte boats British buffalo Cabanné Canadian canoe Cass charge Chicago Chippewas Chouteau clerks Columbia Fur Company company's Crooks and Stuart Crooks's Detroit factories Farnham Fond du Lac fur trade Governor Green Bay Hudson's Bay Company Hunt Illinois Indian agent Indian country Indian trade Island Jacob Franks James John Joseph keelboat Lake Superior land letter Lewis licenses liquor Louis Mackenzie Mackinac Mandan McClellan McDouall McKenney merchandise Michigan Michilimackinac miles Mississippi Missouri Fur Company Montreal mountains mouth Nor'Westers North West Company ordered outfits partners party pelts perhaps Peter's Pierre portage Prairie du Chien Puthuff Ramsay Crooks reached returned River Robert Dickson Robert Stuart Rockies Rolette Rolette's Sacs Sault savages ship Sioux South West Stone summer Taliaferro territory treaty tribes trip United upper village voyageurs Washington western whisky wilderness William Clark winter Wisconsin wrote Yellowstone York
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