The Fur Trade of the American West

Informationen zum Autor David J. Wishart is a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for distinguished books in American geography, sponsored by the Association of American Geographers for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, also available in a Bison Books edition. Klappentext 'The whole (fur trade) system is traced out from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St. Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe. Such factors as capital formation, shifting commercial institutions, the role of advanced market information, and the nature, kinds, costs, and speed of transportation are all worked into the story, as is the relationship of the whole fur trade to national and international business cycles. Zusammenfassung Suitable for the students of the American west, this title traces the fur trade system from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe.

Klappentext
'The whole (fur trade) system is traced out from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St. Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe. Such factors as capital formation, shifting commercial institutions, the role of advanced market information, and the nature, kinds, costs, and speed of transportation are all worked into the story, as is the relationship of the whole fur trade to national and international business cycles.

Zusammenfassung
Suitable for the students of the American west, this title traces the fur trade system from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe.

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