Fur Trade and Exploration
Subtitle: Opening the Far Northwest, 1821-1852
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: January 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780806120935
Subjects: American history; History: American; Discovery And Exploration (General); History - U.S.; USA; Northwest, Pacific; United States - State & Local - General; Discovery and exploration; 19th century; Fur trade; History
First sentence: IN THE SUMMER OF 1821 two groups of wary men gathered at York Factory, the Hudson's Bay Company's great tidewater depot on the shores of Hudson's Bay.