Fur Trade
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Measuring Mother Earth
by Heather Robertson
Heather Robertson has written for Canadian magazines for forty years and has written more than a dozen books, including two award-winners: the novel Willie: A Romance (which won the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Prize and the Books in Canada Best First Novel Award) and the biography Driving Force (which won the National Business Book Award). She lives in King City, Ontario.
The Fur Trade Revisited Selected Papers Of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991
by Jennifer S H, Et Al, Eds Brown
Fur Trade Books & Ephemera
The Western Odyssey Of John Simpson Smith Frontiersman, Trapper, Trader, and Interpreter
by Hoig, Stan
Kit Carson's Autobiography
by Quaife, Milo Milton (Ed.); Carson, Kit
Chicago USA: Lakeside Press, 1935 192 pages. This is a reprint (date not given) of the 1935 Lakeside Classics No 33 Bison Book Edition. This edition has "BB 325" on the spine and was likely published at a much later date. The cover has light wear, including scuffing and a long crease on the back cover. The first page has a name written in pen. The edges are slightly yellowed with age. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.....
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A$30.00
This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest
by Cleland, Robert Glass
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983. Moderate rubbing about the edges and slight creases at the corners, else, an unmarked, clean and tight copy. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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A$12.02
Indian Traders
by Frank McNitt
University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1963. Second Printing. 393 pages. Brown dust jacket with B&W lettering over red cloth. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations & photographs throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with soiling and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Moderate staining and soiling to...
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A$30.57
Jim Bridger
by Alter, J. Cecil
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (1962), 1962. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 3-358, [2] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine; brown topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few plates. First Oklahoma Press edition of Alter's biography of the famed mountain man and scout. The Oklahoma Press edition contains new material and information not in the first edition. Jacket has a small split to...
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A$85.28
Indians in the Fur Trade: their role as trappers, hunters, and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870
by Ray, Arthur J
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Hardcover. G (Some scuffs to mylar cover; of average age all around.). Brown cloth, dark brown dust jacket with mylar cover; 249 pp., 46 maps and diagrams. "In the western interior of Canada, the pre-confederation period was one of relative peace between Indians and Europeans. Nonetheless, it was a time of rapid cultural transformations for the Indians as they adjusted to changing environmental and economic conditions. This book examines these conditions, and...
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A$46.47
The Rockies
by Lavender, David
N.Y.: Harper & Row Publishers, 1968. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 404 pages, illustrated end-papers, maps, slight edge wear to jacket. Lavender traces the Rockies colorful history focusing new attention on the period following the first gold strikes in 1859. Kit Carson, mountain men, outlaws, Indians,Custer mention, etc. Six-Guns 1293.
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A$15.50
The Arthur H. Clark Company An American Century 1902-2002
by Clark, Robert A. Patrick J. Brunet
Spokane Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 300 pages, illustrations. "This new bibliography and history contains a complete listing of all works produced by the firm through the past one hundred years, with full annotations on each book. Additionally, a history of the company provides insights into the firm's founding, publishing efforts, relocations, rare book business, staff members, and achievements.".
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A$62.02
John Tod. Rebel in the Ranks
by Belyk, Robert C
Victoria, BC: Horsdal Schubart Publishers Ltd., 1995 First printing in trade paperback. 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Scratch and tiny crease to front cover. Near Fine.
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A$23.18
Siskiyou Trail: The Hudson's Bay Company route to California (The American trail series)
by Dillon, Richard H
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6-1/4" x 9-1/4. 381 numbered pages, bibliography, index. First Edition/First Printing. Black binding with copper stamping on spine and front board. Bright, clean, tight, and square text block, no marks of any kind. Corners sharp. Unclipped ($9.95) DJ in clear archival protector. (Please disregard reflection on archival protection in picture - the DJ is as described.) Shipped in a sturdy cardboard box for added protection.
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A$65.12
A Materials History of the Commissioner's Residence at Fort Walsh
by Hildebrandt, Walter
Ottawa, Ontario: Parks Canada., 1980 First printing in large paper wraps. Manuscript Report Number 400. 279 pp. Eighty historic photographs, tables, notes, bibliography. Creases to last two pages and rear cover, some tape at the bottom of the spine. Very Good.
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A$77.45
A Ballad Of The West Seekers of the Fleece Lakota
by Bridger, Bobby, Vine Deloria
Austin TX: Wiyaka Press , 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original ¼ leather and marbled boards, 153 pages, frontis, fold-out map, limited to 250 copies, this copy not numbered but is signed by the author, housed in a matching slipcase. Jedediah Smith, Hugh Glass, Jim Bridger, Indians, etc..
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A$62.02
Bent's Fort
by Lavender, David
Bison Books, 1972. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$9.78
Washakie An Account of Indian Resistance of the Covered Wagon and Union Pacific Railroad Invasions of Their Territory
by Hebard, Grace Raymond
Cleveland: Arthur Clark Company, 1930. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 337 pages, frontis, illustrations, map, top edge gilt, minor edge wear, inscribed and signed presentation note from the author attached between the title page and frontis dated 1930. A leader of the Shoshoni, he was well acquainted with Bridger and Carson. He often was employed as a scout for the army. Howes H384, Luther High-Spot 41, "gives a good account of the activity of the Shoshoni allies in support of...
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A$310.10
The 1974-1975 Denver Westerners Brand Book Combining Volumes XXX, XXXI
by Stewart, Alan J. Emmit, Robert P. , Blaurock, Chappell
Denver CO. : The Westerners , 1977. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1, 408 pages, illustrations, # 463 of 525 copies, minor edge wear to the jacket. Chapters include, "The United States Dragoons 1833-1861," "The Ladies of Bent's Fort," "The Estes Park Land Grab," "Lost Towns of the Homesteaders," "Indians of Colorado," " Fur Traders and Their Forts," " William Henry Jackson Pioneer Photographer," etc..
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A$62.02
Uncle Sam's Camels The Journal of May Humphreys Stacey Supplemented by the Report of Edward Fitzgerald Beale 1837-1858
by Lesley, Lewis Burt
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1929. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 298 pages, frontis, illustrations, fold-out map, slight wear. Experiment conducted during the 1850s on the use of camels in the West, Apache Indians...
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A$147.30
Charbonneau Man of Two Dreams
by Blevins, Winfred
Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books. As New with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. 1. Soft Cover. 0915463164 . Publisher's glossy pictorial wraps. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 215 pp .
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A$31.01
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men
by Carl P. Russell
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. 9th printing. Very light edge wear, front cover and first few pages creased top corners, clean copy. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1996.
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A$13.95
LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 1830-1835
by Ferris, Warren Angus
Salt Lake City, Utah: Rocky Mountain Book Shop, 1940. Revised edition. Hardcover. Very good minus. Revised edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 284pp. Incl. appendix (reprint of Articles In The Western Literary Messenger In The 1840's) and index. The revised edition, edited by J.C. Alter, arranged by Herbert Auerbach. Fold-out map of region at rear. A few illustrations. Red cloth with gilt title. Spine and edges of front cover are faded. Darkening to edges of front endpaper (off-setting from original binder's...
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A$93.03
Jim Bridger
by J Cecil Alter
University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. 358 pages. Red and orange pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Tanning to spine and edges.
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A$10.63
A Life Wild And Perilous : Mountain Men And the Paths to the Pacific
by Utley, Robert Marshall
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 392 pages, maps, illustrations, authors signature on a label attached to fly-leaf. Lewis and Clark, Kit Carson, Fremont, Fur Trade, Mountain Men etc..
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A$31.01
JEDEDIAH SMITH AND THE OPENING OF THE WEST.
by Morgan, Dale
457 pp., index, notes, illustrations, photographs, mapped end boards. Stated first edition. Bookplate on 1/2 page, else Fine In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Paher #1332, Rittenhouse #425.
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A$193.81
Indians in the Fur Trade: Their Roles as Trappers, Hunters, and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870
by Ray, Arthur J
University of Toronto Press, 2015. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$20.73
Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865
by John E. Sunder
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. *****HARDCOVER****** 1965 Printing. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$79.08
