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Pelts and palisades: The story of fur and the rivalry for pelts in early America

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By Nathaniel C. Hale
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The narrative traces the centrality of fur from prehistoric garments to the commercial engine of colonial America, showing how demand for beaver pelts shaped exploration, settlement, and imperial rivalry. It describes traders who forged diplomatic and economic ties with Indigenous peoples, the building of palisaded trading posts, and how mercantile interests influenced colonial policy. The work combines broad overview and selected case histories of merchants and frontier traders, follows the transition from trading to trapping and eventual fur farming, and concludes by linking the trade's dynamics to the conflicts that culminated in the French and Indian War.

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Title: Pelts and palisades: The story of fur and the rivalry for pelts in early America

Author: Nathaniel C. Hale

Illustrator: Elmo Jones

Release date: July 17, 2022 [eBook #68540]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Deitz Press, Incorporated, 1959

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The Author

Nathaniel C. Hale graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1925. After serving in the Army, he resigned his commission to enter business, but joined the Army again on the outbreak of World War II. He was Commandant of an Officers Training School prior to overseas duty with the Signal Corps. Since the war, Colonel Hale has become well known as an author and historian. In 1952 he received the annual award of the Society of Colonial Wars in New York for his book, VIRGINIA VENTURER, which was cited as the outstanding contribution of the year in the field of American colonial history. Colonel Hale and his wife, both of Southern birth, make their home in the Rittenhouse Square section of Philadelphia and spend part of their summers at their cottage in Cape May, New Jersey.