Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Native Americans and Europeans in the Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade 1
4. Chapter 1. Hats and the European Fur Market 15
5. Chapter 2. The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Organization of the Fur Trade 36
6. Chapter 3. Indians as Consumers 69
7. Chapter 4. The Decline of Beaver Populations 106
8. Chapter 5. Industrious Indians 130
9. Chapter 6. Property Rights, Depletion, and Survival 150
10. Chapter 7. Indians and the Fur Trade: A Golden Age? 167
11. Epilogue. The Fur Trade and Economic Development 184
12. Appendix A. Fur Prices, Beaver Skins Traded, and the Simulated Beaver Population at Fort Albany, York Factory, and Fort Churchill, 1700–1763 189
13. Appendix B. Simulating the Beaver Population 192
14. Appendix C. A Model of Harvesting Large Game: Joint Ownership Versus Competition 195
15. Appendix D. Food and the Relative Incomes of Native Americans and English Workers 198
16. Notes 203
17. Bibliography 237
18. Index 251
19. Acknowledgments 259