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Chargement... The fist in the wildernesspar David Lavender
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is another of those books when the subtitle isn't quite accurate: it's billed as "A narrative history of the American fur trade" - but it's entirely about JJ Astor's "American Fur Company" of the 19th Century. (Which is rather a subset of the larger territory claimed by the title.) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men like Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and other legendary trappers, Lavender relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks who competed with Britain's Hudson's Bay Company for the fur resources of the Great Lakes region and the upper Missouri River country. Within this framework of contest and competiti Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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