Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country - Brown, Jennifer S. H.

Clean, tight, unmarked; previous owner wrote a letter on each of the illustration pages as reference; brown cloth covers with silver titles on spine; dust jacket has three closed tears to upper front edge with associated creases; chip to bottom back corner of spine of dj; general wear to edges of dust jacket; otherwise very minimal wear; picture of fur traders with their dogs around a campfire; The fur trade of the 18th and 19th centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. This book fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematically examining the traders as a group - their backgrounds, social patterns, domestic lives and families, and the problems of their offspring. Based mainly on archival material, this book makes an important contribution to research ont he fur trade, highlighting such subjects as Hudson's Bay company governor George Simpson and the role of Indian, European, and Metis women in early colonial society. -  from the cover
Very Good in Good dust jacket
Hardcover
University of British Columbia Press
1980
Vancouver, BC