Primary Source Spotlight: North American Fur Trade
Articles
- Before Lewis & Clark, Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America online exhibition (scroll down to access Exploration of the Missouri River & British Passage to the Pacific sections)
- After Lewis & Clark, Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America online exhibition (scroll down to access the Fur Trade section)
- A Fortune Made from Fur: John Jacob Astor Inside Adams blog July 23, 2012
- The Economic History of the Fur Trade: 1670 to 1870 by Ann M. Carlos, University of Colorado & Frank D. Lewis, Queen’s University via Economic History Association
- The Alaska Fur Trade Meeting of Frontiers: Alaska
- The Russian-American Company and the Northwest Fur Trade: North American Scholarship
- Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Local legacy, America’s Library
- Fur trading historical newspaper coverage 1836-1922
Books
- The Fur-Seal Industry of Alaska U.S. Congress 1913
- The Trapper’s Guide 1887
- Fur and the Fur Trade 1879
- The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of Life in the Hudson’s Bay Territory 1879
- Astoria : or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving author’s revised edition 1872
- The Hudson’s Bay Company, Its Position and Prospects 1866
- Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 1854
- Ross’s Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813 reprint of London edition of 1849
- The Oregon Territory, and the British North American Fur Trade 1845
- Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America to the frozen and Pacific oceans, in the years 1789 and 1793 1802
Maps
- A Plan of the Straits of St. Mary, and Michilimakinac, to shew the situation & importance of the two westernmost settlements of Canada for the fur trade 1750
- Map of the United States, Territory of Oregon, west of the Rocky Mountains, exhibiting the various trading depots or forts occupied by the British Hudson Bay Company, connected with the western and northwestern fur trade 1838
- Map of the Trans-Mississippi of the United States during the period of the American fur trade as conducted from St. Louis between the years 1807 and 1843
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