Fur Traders From New England. The Boston Men In The North Pacific, 1787-1800. The Narratives Of William Dane Phelps. William Sturgis & James Gilchrist Swan

BUSCH, BRITON C. AND BARRY M. GOUGH [EDITED BY]

Publication: The Arthur H Clark Company, 1977, Spokane

First Edition. 137pp. Octavo [24.5 cm]. Blue cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on backstrip and front board. Northwest Historical Series XVIII (18). "The primary accounts offered in this work detail the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest as conducted by Yankee traders who doubled Cape Horn annually to engage in the fur trade without the loss of a single ship." - Clark & Brunet 38. "The earliest accounts of the Northwest fur trade, prepared and edited by two top scholars in the field. They have gathered original narratives of the earliest stages of the fur trade: William Dane Phelps' "Solid Men of Boston," William Sturgis' "The Northwest Fur Trade," "William Sturgis on the American Vessels and the Maritime Fur Trade," and "Account of the Vessels Engaged in the Sea-Otter-Fur-Trade on the Northwest Coast from 1787 to 1809," compiled by William Tufts, Esq., from his own memoranda. These rare documents are brought together under one cover to reveal the inner-workings and alliances on which the early fur trade depended." New without dust jacket, as issued. Original prospectus laid-in.

Inventory Number: 50732