White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century (The Lamar Series in Western History)

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How the fur trade changed the North and created the up to date Arctic

Within the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the most world’s harshest environments. At a time when government products and services and social give a boost to were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived at the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills. John R. Bockstoce, a leading scholar of the Arctic fur trade who also served as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, explores the twentieth-century history of the Western Arctic fur trade to the outbreak of World War II, covering an incredible region from Chukotka, Russia, to Arctic Alaska and the Western Canadian Arctic. This period brought profound changes to Native peoples of the North. To turn its enormous affect, the creator draws on interviews with trappers and traders, oral and written archival accounts, research in newspapers and periodicals, and his own field notes from 1969 to the present.

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