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Article: When Skins Were Money: A History of the Fur Trade.(Book review)
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- Oregon Historical Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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WHEN SKINS WERE MONEY: A HISTORY OF THE FUR TRADE by James A. Hanson Museum of the Fur Trade, Chadron, Nebraska, 2005. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. 228 pages. $34.95 cloth, $. paper.
FROM THE OUTSET, James A. Hanson writes as though on a mission to set the record straight and to purge fur-trade history of what he believes are myths and criticisms that have maligned it. In his introduction, Hanson identifies the culprits as academics from past generations, such as W. J. Eccles, who blame fur traders for the degradation of aboriginal culture as well as modern anthropologists and historians more interested in "political correctness" than in recognizing ...