Download or read book The Fur Industry written by Alice Lloyd-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fur Fortune and Empire The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010 Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan Award Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place "A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." —Los Angeles Times As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became immediately apparent, however, from the Indians clad in deer skins and "good furs" was that Hudson had discovered something just as tantalizing. The news of Hudson's 1609 voyage to America ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent, teeming with untapped natural resources. The result was the creation of an American fur trade, which fostered economic rivalries and fueled wars among the European powers, and later between the United States and Great Britain, as North America became a battleground for colonization and imperial aspirations. In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, and buffalos were slaughtered, used for their precious pelts that were tailored into extravagant hats, coats, and sleigh blankets. To read Fur, Fortune, and Empire then is to understand how North America was explored, exploited, and settled, while its native Indians were alternately enriched and exploited by the trade. As Dolin demonstrates, fur, both an economic elixir and an agent of destruction, became inextricably linked to many key events in American history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, as well as to the relentless pull of Manifest Destiny and the opening of the West. This work provides an international cast beyond the scope of any Hollywood epic, including Thomas Morton, the rabble-rouser who infuriated the Pilgrims by trading guns with the Indians; British explorer Captain James Cook, whose discovery in the Pacific Northwest helped launch America's China trade; Thomas Jefferson who dreamed of expanding the fur trade beyond the Mississippi; America's first multimillionaire John Jacob Astor, who built a fortune on a foundation of fur; and intrepid mountain men such as Kit Carson and Jedediah Smith, who sliced their way through an awe inspiring and unforgiving landscape, leaving behind a mythic legacy still resonates today. Concluding with the virtual extinction of the buffalo in the late 1800s, Fur, Fortune, and Empire is an epic history that brings to vivid life three hundred years of the American experience, conclusively demonstrating that the fur trade played a seminal role in creating the nation we are today.

Download or read book Fur Facts Figures written by United States. Business and Defense Services Administration. Rubber, Leather, and Allied Products Division and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fur Facts and Figures written by Morton J. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fur Industry Abroad written by United States. Business and Defense Services Administration and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economics of the Fur Industry written by Victor R. Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the economic complexities of the fur market, including production, marketing, consumer demand, competition, and the decline of fur sales over the years.

Download or read book Fur Truths written by Abraham Gottlieb and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fur Trade Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of the Technical Association of the Fur Industry written by Technical Association of the Fur Industry and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fur and the Fur Trade written by M. M. Backus and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1879 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Furs and the Fur Trade written by John C. Sachs and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Blueprint written by Peter Young and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called a "terrorist handbook" by fur farmers, The Blueprint is the first-ever guide to ending the fur industry. Hundreds of mink & fox farm addresses, fur farm photos, detailed notes on fur farms, and the top six weaknesses in the fur industry form concise guide to destroying the US fur farm industry.

Download or read book Animalkind written by Ingrid Newkirk and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with “admiration and empathy” (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries, like that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away. Newkirk and Stone pair their tour through the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. Whether it’s medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to marshmallows, reap the benefits of animal-free medical research, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics. Animalkind provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and lays out the steps everyone can take to put this new understanding into action.

Download or read book The Fur Trade of America and Some of the Men who Made and Maintain it written by Albert Lord Belden and published by New York : Peltries. This book was released on 1917 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fur Trade in Canada written by Harold Adams Innis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of Canadian historical scholarship, first published in 1930. In his new introduction, A.J. Ray states that this book is argueably the most definitive economic history and geography of Canada ever produced.

Download or read book The Fur Trade of America written by Agnes C. Laut and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1921 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic written by John R. Bockstoce and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic: “The history is fascinating.” —Anchorage Daily News In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world’s harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on 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 immense region from Chukotka, Russia, to Arctic Alaska and the Western Canadian Arctic. This period brought profound changes to Native peoples of the North. To show its enormous impact, the author 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. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Honorary Mention, 2020 William Mills Prize for Non-fiction Polar Books “An engaging story that is chock-full of fascinating anecdotes.” —Arctic “Invaluable . . . future generations of historians will refer to it.” —Canadian Journal of History “A compelling narrative . . . Bockstoce proves once again why he is the definitive source of all things related to Arctic maritime history.” —Sea History Includes photographs