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| Title: | Dark Storm Moving West
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| Author: | Barbara Belyea |
| ISBN: | 155238182X : 9781552381823 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus & maps |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 300x230mm |
| Pages: | 188 |
| Weight: | .908 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Calgary Press - September 2007 |
| List Price: | 29.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Geographical discovery & exploration: North America |
The fur trade was the impetus for much of the exploration & discovery of North America. Like rolling storm clouds, the expanding enterprise of the fur trade moved relentlessly west to explore the furthest reaches of the continent. From Hudson Bay, Lake Superior, & the Mississippi River, European & American explorers & traders followed a web of waterways north to the rich fur region of Lake Athabaska, farther north to the Arctic Ocean, & west to the Rocky Mountains & on to the Pacific Ocean. The essays in "Dark Storm Moving West" trace three phases of westward exploration: naval & fur trade ventures on the Pacific coast. traders’ progress along interior rivers & lakes. & the transcontinental Lewis & Clark expedition, which used maps based on fur trade surveys. The author poses challenging questions about the rapid expansion, its effects on Native populations, European versus Native cartography, cultural definitions of space, & communication of traditions. Belyea also introduces Peter Fidler as an important documentary source for exploration studies during the fur trade expansion, incorporating into her own study Fidler's journals, maps, & reports, most of which are previously unpublished.
Myth as Science - The Northwest Passage. David Thompson, HBC Surveyor. Decision at the Marias. Mapping West of the Bay. The Silent Past is Made to Speak. Outside the Circle. Notes. Sources. Index.
