Frontiers and the fur trade
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Greenbie, Sydney, 1889-1960
issued: 2018-10-09
issued: [1929]
description: "Account of the fur trade, especially its contribution to the exploration and settlement of the North American continent, with emphasis on the U.S."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 118.
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extent: xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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note: FRONTIERS AND THE FUR TRADE FRONTIERS AND THE FUR TRADE BY SYDNEY GREENBIE SALE >.| TO TH6 r ■"BBS* 11. UfHttMtl||tU»tMt|,utti THE JOHN DAY COMPANY NEW YORK I f COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY THE JOHN DAY COMPANY, INC. FIRST PUBLISHED, FEBRUARY, 1929 1 ill PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. FOR THE JOHN DAY COMPANY, INC. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC., RAHWAY, N. J. r mm ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sydney Greenbie was born in North Dakota on June 28, 1889. Since his early youth Mr. Greenbie has believed in locomotion as the basis for historical research and education, and has carried out his personal method of study by traveling extensively in Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. In preparation for this book he has traveled many thousands of miles through Canada and the North West. He is at present touring the world as President of the Floating University. Mr. Greenbie has lectured at various uni- ^ [|! versities and has been associate editor of several magazines. He is the author of a number of books including Japan Real and Imaginaryy The Pacific Triangle, and Gold of Ophir. n I -^ PREFACE nr^HIS is the story of the two oldest pursuits of men, hunting *- and fishing, and their part in peopling the American continent and creating what is unique in modern American life and its spirit. Believing that we, the newest among the great nations, draw our extraordinary vitality and mobility of life from our greater closeness to certain primal sources of energy in wilderness living, I have tried to give the fur trade in America a wider and more philosophical interpretation than it has commonly received. To do this I have first sketched in the geographical background, pointing out the special influence of forest and river in American history, and picturing, by contrast, the geographical and social characteristics of the towns from which the first hunters and fishers came. I have then given the historical background to fur trading and fishing in America, pointing out that life on the American …
note: Includes index Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270715679
has type: Books
identifier: F5037 .G78
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0372743
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New York : The John Day Company
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Koerner Library. F5037 .G78
subject: Frontier and pioneer life--Canada
subject: Frontier and pioneer life--United States
subject: Fur trade--Northwest, Canadian
subject: Trapping
type: Text