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The Company of Adventurers: A Narrative..., Isaac Cowie

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Objectstaat
Goed: Een boek dat is gelezen, maar zich in goede staat bevindt. De kaft is zeer minimaal beschadigd ...
ISBN
0803263503
EAN
9780803263505
Date of Publication
19930301
Publication Name
N/A
Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
The Company of Adventurers: A Narrative of Seven Years in the ...
Artist
Isaac Cowie
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Colour
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Book Title
Company of Adventurers : A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company During 1867-1874
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Item Length
8.5 in
Publication Year
1993
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.3 in
Author
Isaac Cowie
Genre
Travel, History
Topic
Canada / Territories & Nunavut (NT, Nu, YT), General, North America, Canada / Pre-Confederation (To 1867)
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
555 Pages

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The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed from the Shetland Islands to Rupert's Land, finally reaching York Factory, where he awaited his assignment. Company of Adventurers describes the early, lusty history of the HBC and the years of Cowie's service, when manufactured goods were driving out the demand for furs and buffalo hides. It contains rare information about the Assiniboin and Plains Crees Indians during the period before their confinement to reservations. Alive to the historical and ethnographic value of his writing, Cowie tells about his tenure as a clerk (later manager) at Fort Qu'Appelle in southern Saskatchewan, the colorful personalities who served with him, the wide-ranging fur brigades, remote outposts, and the Company's relations with Indian tribes. He was the first white man known to have set foot within the Swift Current District when in 1868 he hunted buffalo there. His dealings with the Métis during the Red River Rebellion placed him where history was being made. In an introduction to this Bison Book edition, David Reed Miller discusses how Cowie fitted into a great commercial enterprise and how he became a victim of unpleasant circumstances that forced his retirement in 1891.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803263503
ISBN-13
9780803263505
eBay Product ID (ePID)
865481

Product Key Features

Book Title
Company of Adventurers : A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company During 1867-1874
Number of Pages
555 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
Canada / Territories & Nunavut (NT, Nu, YT), General, North America, Canada / Pre-Confederation (To 1867)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, History
Author
Isaac Cowie
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition
20
Lccn
92-037703
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
917.192041
Lc Classification Number
F1060.9.C87 1993
Copyright Date
1993

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