@article{346311,
      recid = {346311},
      author = {Dolin, Eric Jay.},
      title = {Fur, fortune, and empire : the epic history of the fur  trade in America /},
      publisher = {W.W. Norton & Co.,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xvii, 442 p., [32] p. of plates :},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {For all of fur's contentious position in American culture  today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our  nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade  in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous  frontier where global powers battled for control. From the  seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the  developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent,  with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a seemingly  inexhaustible resource. The result was a major boost in the  evolution of the colonies into a powerful new player on the  world stage. Dolin sheds insight on the ways the fur trade  created international tensions--in New England, the Great  Lakes, and in the expanding West. Fur traders were often  the first white men to map major rivers, forests, and  mountains, then soon pushed Native Americans off their  lands as John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company attempted  to monopolize the West.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/346311},
}