Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. Part 1. Introduction
6. 1. Fort Ross: Founding and Abandonment, 1937 to 1948 1
7. 2. White Fox: From the Trapper to the Retail Customer 16
8. Part 2. Development of the Western Arctic Fur Trade to 1914
9. 3. The Advance of the Maritime Trade in the Bering Strait Region 51
10. 4. Expansion of the Trade in Northern Alaska and Western Arctic Canada 77
11. Part 3. Heyday of the Western Arctic Fur Trade, 1914 to 1929
12. 5. Revolution and Civil War on the Chukchi Peninsula 109
13. 6. Growth of the Trade in Northern Alaska 142
14. 7. Competition among Traders in Western Arctic Canada 159
15. Part 4. Decline of the Western Arctic Fur Trade, 1929 to ca. 1950
16. 8. State Ownership of the Trade on the Chukchi Peninsula 205
17. 9. Contraction of Trade in Northern Alaska 212
18. 10. Toward Monopoly Control in Western Arctic Canada 228
19. Chronology 245
20. Glossary 253
21. Notes 263
22. Bibliography 283
23. Acknowledgments 311
24. Index 313