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Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant $34.15 Born in 1833 at Fort Edmonton, Johnny Grant experienced and wrote about many historical events in the Canada-US northwest, and died within sight of the same fort in 1907. Grant was not only a fur trader; he was instrumental in early ranching efforts in Montana and played a pivotal role in the Riel Resistance of 1869-70. Published in its entirety for the first time, Grant?s memoir—with a perce…

Indian Women & French Men (Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, & the Contemporary) $21.98 A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the colonial period, the Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples. In this well-researched study, Susan Sleeper-Smith focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions-the role played by Indian women who married French traders. Drawing on a broad range of prima…

Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, Second Edition (Indians of the Southeast) $15.92 Deerskins and Duffels documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern United States. The Creeks were the largest Indian nation in the Southeast, and through their trade alliance with the British colonies, they became the dominant Native power in the area. The deerskin trade became the…