Books Details
Author : John R. Bockstoce Pages : 344 pages Publisher : Yale University Press
Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0300221797 ISBN-13 : 9780300221794
Books Descriptions
How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern ArcticIn 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.
