Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843

By Richard Somerset MacKie

Book Overview

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the North West and Hudson's Bay companies extended their operations to the Pacific Ocean, where, with the aid of Native traders, they branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Mackie shows how the well-capitalized Hudson's Bay Company created a regional economy on the Pacific coast and documents how the Native people played a part in the emerging economy and how, in myriad ways, they paid for contact with British commerce.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774806133
• ISBN13: 9780774806138
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"