White fox and icy seas in the Western Arctic : the fur trade, transportation, and change in the early twentieth century /
John R. Bockstoce ; foreword by William Barr.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
- The Lamar Series in Western History .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Development of the western Arctic fur trade to 1914 -- Heyday of the western Arctic fur trade, 1914 to 1929 -- Decline of the western Arctic fur trade, 1929 to circa 1950.
In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills. John R. Bockstoce, a leading scholar of the Arctic fur trade who also served as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, explores the twentieth-century history of the Western Arctic fur trade to the outbreak of World War II, covering an immense region from Chukotka, Russia, to Arctic Alaska and the Western Canadian Arctic.