Author: Wayne Edson Stevens

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-13

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780332449982

Excerpt from The British Monopoly of the Northwest Fur Trade, 1774-1796: Thesis The present study represents an attempt to throw a little new light upon a phase of American history which has been somewhat neglected in the past. There is great need for a thorough study of the subject of the fur trade in all its various phases, social, economic, and political, without which the history of the American frontier can never be adequately interpreted. In the present instance, the writer has endeav ored to describe the northwest fur trade during the period of British ascendancy prior to 1800, and likewise to trace the in fluence of this traffic upon the diplomacy of the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.