Fur Trade Revisited : Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Memories of a Trapper's Daughter: Banquet Address of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference -- Part I: Transatlantic Fur Trade Markets and Entrepreneurs -- Exchange Patterns in the European Market for North American Furs and Skins, 1720-1760 -- British Capital in the Fur Trade: John Strettell and John Fraser -- Part II: Native People and Changing Trade Relations -- Articulation of the Lakota Mode of Production and the Euro-American Fur Trade -- French and Spanish Colonial Trade Policies and the Fur Trade among the Caddoan Indians of the Trans-Mississippi South -- The Flow of European Trade Goods into the Western Great Lakes Region, 1715-1760 -- "No less than 7 different nations": Ethnicity and Culture Contact at Fort George-Buckingham House -- Looking at the Ledgers: Sauk and Mesquakie Trade Debts, 1820-1840 -- "Half-Breed" Rolls and Fur Trade Families in the Great Lakes Region-An Introduction and Bibliography -- Part III: Becoming a Trader: Origins, Lives, and Survival -- The Career of Joseph La France, Coureur de Bois in the Upper Great Lakes -- The Cadottes: Five Generations of Fur Traders on Lake Superior -- The Fear of Pillaging: Economic Folktales of the Great Lakes Fur Trade -- Roots in the Mohawk Valley: Sir William Johnson's Legacy in the North West Company -- Faithful Service under Different Flags: A Socioeconomic Profile of the Columbia District, Hudson's Bay Company and the Upper -- Failure on the Columbia: Nathaniel Wyeth's Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company -- Part IV: The Fur Trade at Mackinac -- The Michilimackinac Misfortunes of Commissary Roberts -- Effects of the American Revolution on Fur-Trade Society at Michilimackinac -- Apprentice Trader: Henry H. Sibley and American Fur at Mackinac.