Cris Peterson
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. The fur trade influenced every aspect of life, from how Europeans related to the Indians, how and where settlements were built, to how our nation formed. Drawing on primary sources, including the diaries of Ojibwa, American, and French traders of the period, Birchbark Brigade gives...