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The subarctic Indians and the fur trade, 1680-1860
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John Collin Yerbury |
Presents and interprets historical documents which trace the changes which occurred in Canadian Athapaskan Indian society as a result of the fur trade. |
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The character and influence of the Indian trade in Wisconsin
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Frederick Jackson Turner |
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) was one of the best known historians in America, based at the University of Wisconsin until 1910, and then at Harvard. In this long paper Turner first discusses I… |
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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David Mitchell |
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the W… |
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Dancing at the Odinochka
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Kirkpatrick Hill |
In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alas… |
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The darkness rolling
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Winfred Blevins |
"Upon his return from World War II, Seaman Yazzie Goldman realizes that not much has changed at his family's trading post in Monument Valley--and yet everything is different ... [Yazzie's mother] Niz… |
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Ma… |
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Heart of darkness, and the critics
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Joseph Conrad |
The Congo diary / Joseph Conrad -- In the heart of darkness / G. Jean-Aubry -- On Conrad's use of memory / Edward Garnett -- Reassessment of "Heart of darkness" / Douglas Hewitt -- The journey within… |
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The Indian traders
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Frank McNitt |
xiv,393p.,[24]p. of plates : 23cm |
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Navajo trader
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Gladwell Richardson |
Gladwell Richardson was born on Sept. 4, 1903 in Alvarado, Texas. He divided his childhood between Oklahoma and Arizona. Gladwell was self-taught and attended two institutions of higher education. He… |
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The conquest of Don Pedro
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Harvey Fergusson |
Noted New Mexican author describes the end of the "rico" era in a small New Mexico town after the Civil War in this historical novel. |
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Patterns of Exchange
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Teresa J. Wilkins |
The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production … |
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