The Fur Trade Within Colonial Times (Skylla Larson)

Fur Trade Hot Spots

Hudson Company

Monopoly Achieved

For Further Reading Check out These Books

For Adults

  • Strangers in Blood : Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country By Jennifer S. H. Brown
  • Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism By Carol Williams
  • Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870 By Sylvia Van Kirk
  • Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade By Barton H. Barbour
  • Fur, Fortune, and Empire By Eric Jay Dolin

For Young Readers

  • The Legend of The Beaver's Tail By Stephanie Shaw
  • Keeping Warm With Fur and Fat Hannah Fields
  • The Young Fur Traders: A Tale of the Far North BY Robert Michael Ballantyne
  • Trappers & Mountain Men By Anastasia Suen

Works Used in the Making of This Page

  • Francis, Daniel, and Toby Elaine Morantz. Partners in furs: A history of         the fur trade in eastern James Bay, 1600-1870. Kingston, Ont: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1983. 
  • Hearne, Samuel. A journey to the Northern Ocean: The adventures of Samuel Hearne. Surrey: Heritage House, 2015. 
  • Hudson, Henry, and G. M. Asher. Henry Hudson the navigator: The original documents in which his career is recorded. New York, New York: Franklin, 1963. 
  • Newman, Peter C. Empire of the Bay: An illustrated history of the hudson’s bay company. Markham, Ont: Viking/Madison Press, 1990. 
  • Nute, Grace Lee. Caesars of the Wilderness: Médard Chouart, Sieur des groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1978. 
  • Ogden, Adele. The California Sea Otter Trade: 1784-1848, by Adele Ogden. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1941. 
  • Richter, Daniel K., and Bob Souer. Facing east from Indian country: A native history of early america. Old Saybrook: Tantor Audio, 2018.
  • Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many tender ties: Women in fur-trade society, 1670-1870. Winnipeg: Watson & Dwywer, 2011. 
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