Soft Gold: A Tale of the Fur Trade.

Reiley, Jim.

ISBN 10: 0974038202 / ISBN 13: 9780974038209

Published by Turnpike Press of Northfield, 2004

About this Item

softcover, minor wear, lamination beginning to peel from cover, light spine crease, bindign tight, pages bright, a nice copy!

Seller Inventory # 110998

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Soft Gold: A Tale of the Fur Trade.
• Publisher: Turnpike Press of Northfield
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974038202
• ISBN 13: 9780974038209
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • US History::Western Americana

About this title

Synopsis

An agreeable marriage of good history and an equally good story, Soft Gold captures the essence of the most dynamic industry - the Fur Trade - of North America in the late 18th Century. Against this background, with crisp writing an unadorned description, Reiley portrays the lives of a lad from the Highlands of Scotland and a mixed blood native woman. The infatuation grows into love and all the bright prospects for a lifetime of bliss are overtaken by a clash of cultures. Readers will appreciate a finely crafted story based on reality.

About the Author

Reiley brings to this story inspiration from more than forty years teaching American Studies. He supplemented this with a decade of service in the National Park Service as a Ranger-Historian.