Ebook: Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840

A resounding history of cooperation, conflict, and commerce in the fur trade.

Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. Daniel Laxer uncovers songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.