Furs and Frontiers in the Far North : The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade

by John R. Bockstoce

• ISBN13: 9780300167993
• ISBN10: 0300167997
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

With expert scholarship and a keen eye for detail, John R. Bockstoce provides the first analysis of the historic competition between the Russians, British, and Americans for control of the Bering Strait fur trade. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Arctic specialist John R. Bockstoce is an independent scholar and the author of many books, monographs, and articles.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
A Note on Names	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
The origins of the fur Trade in the Bering Strait Region	p. 1
The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait	p. 3
Trapping and Hunting for Marketable Furs	p. 41
The Russian Expansion toward Alaska	p. 70
Marketing the Furs	p. 103
The Russian-British Rivalry in Northern Alaska	p. 115
The Russians Move North	p. 117
The British Response	p. 129
Mikhailovsky Redoubt	p. 167
The Expeditions to Point Barrow	p. 179
Zagoskin's Expedition to the Yukon	p. 193
The British Expansion Northwestward	p. 203
Foreign fleets Reach Bering Strait	p. 225
The Search for Sir John Franklin	p. 227
Trading Activities from 1848 to the Sale of Russian America	p. 260
Chaos and Transformation in the Latter Third of the Nineteenth Century	p. 296
The Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century	p. 324
End of the Century	p. 355
The Introduction of Firearms to the Eskimos of the Bering Strait Region	p. 361
Chronology	p. 363
Glossary	p. 371
Notes	p. 375
Bibliography	p. 411
Index	p. 447
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