The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations .............................................. viii Foreword ..................................................... xiii Preface ....................................................... xv Introduction .................................................... 1 Memories of a Trapper's Daughter: Banquet Address of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference Lily McAuley . .................................................. 9 Part I Transatlantic Fur Trade Markets aIld Entrepreneurs Exchange Patterns in the European Market for North American Furs and Skins, 1720-1760 Thomas Wien .................................................. 19 British Capital in the Fur Trade: John Strettell and John Fraser Harry W. Duckworth . ........................................... 39 Part II Native People and Changing Trade Relations Articulation of the Lakota Mode of Production and the Euro-American Fur Trade Kathleen Pickering . ............................................. 57 French and Spanish Colonial Trade Policies and the Fur Trade among the Caddoan Indians of the Trans-Mississippi South Timothy K. Perttula ............................................. 71 The Flow of European Trade Goods into the Western Great Lakes Region, 1715-1760 Dean L. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 93 "No less than 7 different nations": Ethnicity and Culture Contact at Fort George-Buckingham House Lynda Gullason ............................................... 117 Looking at the Ledgers: Sauk and Mesquakie Trade Debts, 1820-1840 Royce Kurtz . ................................................. 143 "Half-Breed" Rolls and Fur Trade Families in the Great Lakes Region-An Introduction and Bibliography James L. Hansen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Part III Becoming a Trader: Origins, Lives, and Survival The Career of Joseph La France, Coureur de Bois in the Upper Great Lakes Helen Hornbeck Tanner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 The Cadottes: Five Generations of Fur Traders on Lake Superior Theresa M. Schenck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 189 The Fear of Pillaging: Economic Folktales of the Great Lakes Fur Trade Bruce M. White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 199 Roots in the Mohawk Valley: Sir William Johnson's Legacy in the North West Company Heather Devine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Faithful Service under Different Flags: A Socioeconomic Profile of the Columbia District, Hudson's Bay Company and the Upper Missouri Outfit, American Fur Company, 1825-1835 William R. Swagerty and Dick A. Wilson . ............................ 243 Failure on the Columbia: Nathaniel Wyeth's Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company Bradford R. Cole . ............................................. 269 Part IV The Fur Trade at Mackinac The Michilimackinac Misfortunes of Commissary Roberts Peter Marshall . ............................................... 285 Effects of the American Revolution on Fur-Trade Society at Michilimackinac Keith R. Widder . .............................................. 299 Apprentice Trader: Henry H. Sibley and American Fur at Mackinac Rhoda R. Gilman .............................................. 317 Crucifixes and Medallions from Michilimackinac Charles J. Rinehart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331 Part V Archaeology and Material Culture A Newly-Discovered Trade Gun Type James R. Duncan . ............................................. 349 When Rivers Were Roads: Deciphering the Role of Canoe Portages in the Western Lake Superior Fur Trade Douglas A. Birk ............................................... 359 Origins of Fort Union: Archaeology and History William J. Hunt, Jr. ........................................... 377 Part VI Into the Twentieth Century The Hudson's Bay Company in Southwestern Alberta, 1874-1905 Henry C. Klassen . ............................................. 393 Creating Corporate Images of the Fur Trade: The Hudson's Bay Company and Public Relations in the 1930s Peter Geller . ................................................. 409 Capt. Thierry Mallet: Adventurer, Businessman, Writer Gwyneth Hoyle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 Part VII Fur Trade Literature and Interpretation: Issues and Problems Long's Voyages and Travels: Fact and Fiction Michael Blanar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 The H.B.Co's Arctic Expedition 1836-1839: Dease's Field Notes as Compared to Simpson's Narrative I. S. MacLaren ................................................ 465 Fur Trade Social History and the Public Historian: Some Other Recent Trends Michael Payne . ............................................... 481 About the Authors and Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 501 Index ....................................................... 507 ...