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Explorers West (U.S.) Biography Frontier and pioneer life Michigan Fur trade Fur trade West (U.S.) History Fur trade West (U.S.) History 19th century Overland journeys to the Pacific Pioneers West (U.S.) Biography Trappers West (U.S.) Biography West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration West (U.S.) History To 1848Silbernagel, 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 SilbernagelSivertson, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYDMorse, Eric W.
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 MorseBailey, 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 SIVKent, Timothy J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003
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2 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Letter Press 1971
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 JOHCopies Available at Woodmere
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 KWABlair, E. A. (Edward A.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scrivenery Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlevins, Winfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BLECrawford, Kim
Contents: Witness to Murder : Saginaw, 1802 -- The Saginaw Trail -- Trouble in Detroit -- War Clouds -- War in the Michigan Territory -- The Arrest of Jacob Smith -- I Pray You Inform Me ... : The Character of Jacob Smith -- Abduction to Saginaw -- The Return of the Boyer Children -- Jacob Smith versus Louis Campau, 1815 -- Peace -- Conclude a Treaty for the Country upon the Saginac Bay -- The Treaty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.403 SMITH, JACOB CRAIrving, Washington
Summary: From the Publisher: America's first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 IRVReese, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 REERidley, Scott.
Summary: Four years after the Revolutionary War, America's independence was still in doubt. The new nation needed money and a vital surge in trade. In 1787, a group of Boston merchants decided to send two ships on a desperate mission around Cape Horn and into the Pacific Ocean, to establish new trade with China, settle an outpost on territory claimed by the Spanish, and find the legendary Northwest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENDRICK, JOHN RidleyTsutaya, Kaori.
Summary: Step-by-step, illustrated instructions for creating a variety of handicraft projects from cat fur. Requires no special equipment or training--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 TSUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Fiber TsutayaNute, 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 NUTUtley, 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 UTLDe Voto, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1998