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Author: Sarah Crawford Isto
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This title brings the history of the Alaskan fur farms to life by capturing the stories of the men and women who made fur their livelihood.
Author: Sarah Crawford Isto
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This title brings the history of the Alaskan fur farms to life by capturing the stories of the men and women who made fur their livelihood.
Author: Sarah Crawford Isto
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being started in Alaska within a few years. The Great Depression, and later the development of warm, durable, and lightweight synthetic materials during World War II, brought further decline and eventual failure to the industry as the postwar economy of Alaska turned to defense and later to oil. The Fur Farms of Alaska brings this history to life by capturing the remarkable stories of the men and women who made fur their livelihood. “For more than 200 years ‘soft gold’ brought many people to Alaska. Fur farming was Alaska’s third-largest industry in the 1920s, and Sarah Isto writes of the many efforts, successes, and ultimately of the fur farming industry’s failure. This well-researched history contextualizes current fox elimination projects on Alaska islands and explains the abandoned pens one stumbles across. This is a story that has long needed to be written.”—Joan M. Antonson, Alaska State Historian
Author: John R. Bockstoce
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030023516X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic: “The history is fascinating.” —Anchorage Daily News In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world’s harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills. John R. Bockstoce, a leading scholar of the Arctic fur trade who also served as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, explores the twentieth-century history of the Western Arctic fur trade to the outbreak of World War II, covering an immense region from Chukotka, Russia, to Arctic Alaska and the Western Canadian Arctic. This period brought profound changes to Native peoples of the North. To show its enormous impact, the author draws on interviews with trappers and traders, oral and written archival accounts, research in newspapers and periodicals, and his own field notes from 1969 to the present. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Honorary Mention, 2020 William Mills Prize for Non-fiction Polar Books “An engaging story that is chock-full of fascinating anecdotes.” —Arctic “Invaluable . . . future generations of historians will refer to it.” —Canadian Journal of History “A compelling narrative . . . Bockstoce proves once again why he is the definitive source of all things related to Arctic maritime history.” —Sea History Includes photographs
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Category : Fur farming
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
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Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
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Author: Lewis B. Flohr
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Category : Farm produce
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : Foxes
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Author: United States. Bureau of Biological Survey
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Author: United States. Bureau of Biological Survey
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
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