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A surprising and sweeping history that reveals the fur trade to be the driving force behind conquest, colonization, and revolution in early America
Combining the epic saga of Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder with the natural history of Mark Kurlansky's Cod, popular historian Alan Axelrod reveals the astonishingly vital role a small animal—the beaver—played in the creation of our nation. The author masterfully relays a story often neglected by conventional histories: how lust for fur trade r...

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History Social Sciences World History United States History Native American Studies Americas - General & Miscellaneous History 18th Century United States History - American Revolution Colonial Era - United States History Native North American People United States History - Northeastern & Middle Atlantic Region North America - History - General & Miscellaneous American Revolution - General & Miscellaneous American Colonial History - General & Miscellaneous Native North American Peoples - General & Miscellaneous Northeastern & Middle Atlantic Region - History - General & Miscellaneous

A Savage Empire: Trappers, Traders, Tribes, and the Wars That Made America