The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains: A Multidisciplinary Study - Hardcover

Kennedy, Margaret A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820425966 ISBN 13: 9780820425962

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

The last stage of the fur trade of North America's northwestern plains, in which native people played a decisive role, is known as the whiskey trade due to the overwhelming use of alcohol as a commodity of exchange. In the 1860s and 1870s, hundreds of trading posts were established throughout northern Montana and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan by independent American traders seeking buffalo robes processed by the women of local native groups. This study combines evidence from history, archaeology, and native oral traditions to present new insight on this most important, yet rarely studied, episode in the North American fur trade.

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About the Author

The Author: Margaret A. Kennedy is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Saskatchewan. She received her Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Calgary in 1991 and has been involved in numerous studies of the historical archaeology of the northwestern plains over the past two decades.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820425966
• ISBN 13: 9780820425962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 181