(Mobile library) Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882 (Studies in Environment and History)
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| #3502113 in Books | George Colpitts | 2014-10-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.87 x5.98l, | File Name: 1107044901 | 318 pages | Pemmican Empire Food Trade and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains 1780 1882 Studies in Environment and History
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An unusual environmental history about a little-known aspect of the Canadian west.|By lyndonbrecht|This is a bit of a chore to read, partly because of the thoroughness of presenting evidence. Reader alert: This is an academic format, with footnotes on every page, usually a third of the page. It is a volume in a very impressive series, Studies in Environment and History (all th||"At last we have the sweeping story of the destruction of the buffalo herds of North America, not as a subject of natural history but as an inquiry into man's depredations - from the first employment of the mammal's flesh and fat for the making of pemmican, w
In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison meats and fats (pemmican) from plains hunters to support their commercial expansion across the continent. Pemmican Empire traces the history of the unsustainable food-market hunt on the plains, which, once established, created distinctive trade relations between the newcomers ...
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