Frontier Profit and Loss: The British Army and the Fur Traders, 1760-1764

by Walter S. Dunn Jr.

By 1760, with the alleviation of the French threat to the western frontier, colonial fur traders headed west to reap the bounty of trade with the local tribes. However, when dissatisfied French interests conspired to instigate a revolt, the resulting Pontiac Uprising would force the British to rethink colonial trade policy. The fur traders, who had considered the British government their ally in exploiting the west, now saw the British allying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313306052
• ISBN13: 9780313306051
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"