Silbernagel, Robert
Summary: "The Cadotte family became involved in the fur trade during the French colonial period, and members of the family played key roles after the British takeover of the region and then during the American period. They worked with the North West Company, the American Fur Company, and other firms; they served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and in numerous conflicts involving Native...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Historical Society Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US SilbernagelJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHSivertson, Howard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Superior Port Cities 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.49 SIVHyde, Anne Farrar
Summary: "A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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Summary: Defines historical fur-trade canoe routes, linking them where necessary with modern landmarks and roads, and describing their general condition today where they have been changed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Toronto Press 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 382.45 MorseMcCoy, Max
Summary: "Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle--the firearm he invented, the one that never missed its target. The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul. Instead of returning to the gambling halls and whiskey bars of St. Louis, Jack has spent the last decade as a fur trapper in Wyoming's Wild River Range, married to Sky, the daughter of an Arikara war chief, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCSummary: Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get ahold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD Movie 101Bailey, Katharine
Summary: Radisson and des Groseilliers were French explorers and fur traders. Their discoveries led to the creation of the Hudson Bay Company, Canada's oldest corporation and one of the oldest merchant companies in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971.01 BAIDolin, Eric Jay.
Summary: Traces the rise and fall of the American fur industry, beginning with Dutch traders in the early 1600s through the conservation movement in the late nineteenth century and explains how the animal skin trade damaged the lives of Native Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45685 DOLLaycock, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 LAYSivertson, Howard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midwest Traditions 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971.3 SIVSummary: Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 Dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get a hold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. She hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GREKent, Timothy J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.401 KEN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.401 KEN
Philip, Leila
Summary: "In the rich naturalist tradition of H Is for Hawk and The Soul of an Octopus, Beaverland tells the tumultuous, eye-opening story of how beavers and the beaver fur trade shaped America's history, culture, and environment. Before the American empires of steel and coal and oil, before the railroads, there was the empire of fur. Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.3 PHIJohnson, Ida Amanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Letter Press 1971
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 380.145 JOHKwasny, Melissa
Summary: "Kwasny investigates the cultural history of fashion, traveling the globe to gather firsthand accounts of traditions and manufacturing methods, from aboriginal to modern, as she investigates the phenomenology of silk, skin, wool, feathers, and pearls, long coveted materials that even today are regarded as precious and luxurious"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.009 KWAFord, R. Clyde (Richard Clyde)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 1985
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Straits FordNute, Grace Lee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971 NUTPunke, Michael
Summary: "A story of survival on the American frontier chronicles the exploits of fur trapper Hugh Glass, who is attacked by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his fellow trappers, but survives and treks through the wilderness to seek justice"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUNUtley, Robert Marshall
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 UTLWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: Follows the yearly cycle of the voyageur Eduoard as he travels to Grand Portage, trading furs for goods that he uses to purchase more furs from the native villages during the winter months.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARBlair, E. A. (Edward A.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scrivenery Press 2000