Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait: Americans and Russians Meet the "Kanigmiut" in Kotzebue Sound Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 95, part 1)

Makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the early maritime trade in the northern Pacific in general, & in the Bering Strait area in particular. The maritime fur trade was an important commercial force in the Bering Strait region from the early 19th cent. until the outbreak of WW2; nevertheless, its origins are not well understood. But two important documents shed considerable light on the genesis of this trade. These manuscripts describe the voyages of the Amer. trading brigs “...