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Many tender ties : women in fur-trade society, 1670-1870 Cover Image Book Book

Many tender ties : women in fur-trade society, 1670-1870 / by Sylvia Van Kirk.

Van Kirk, Sylvia. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0806118423
  • ISBN: 9780806118420
  • ISBN: 0806118474
  • ISBN: 9780806118475
  • Physical Description: 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st American ed.
  • Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1983, ©1980.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- 1. Enter the white man -- 2. The custom of the country -- 3. "Your honors servants" -- 4. Women in between -- 5. "Daughters of the country" -- 6. My only consolation -- 7. "Quite English in her manner" -- 8. "Lovely tender exotics -- 9. A question of blood -- 10. "A world we have lost" -- Abbreviations -- Select bibliography -- References -- Index.

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Subject: Fur traders' spouses > Northwest, Canadian.
Fur trade > Northwest, Canadian > History.
Women > Northwest, Canadian > History.
Fur trade.
Fur traders' spouses.
Manners and customs.
Social conditions.
Women.
Coureurs de bois > Canada (Nord-Ouest) > Conjoints.
Indiens > Amérique du Nord > Canada (Nord-Ouest) > Femmes.
Northwest, Canadian > Social life and customs.
Northwest, Canadian > Social conditions.
Northwest, Canadian > History.
Canada > Canadian Northwest.
Nord-Ouest canadien > Conditions sociales.
Genre: History.

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