v. 1: The demand for furs
Foundations of the American fur trade
The early French monopolies
The French advance on the St. Lawrence
The English advance and first conquest of New France
Early traders in New England
Dutch and Swedish fur traders
Beginning of the fur trade in the southern colonies
Westward expansion of New France
The Iroquois and Anglo-French imperialism
New France and the early intercolonial wars
English trade and the Anglo-French wars
Hudson Bay in the early intercolonial wars
Louisiana under Iberville and Crozat
Regulation by the Board of Trade
Trade policy of the northern British colonies
Southern colonies and the westward movement
The Company of the Indies and Bienville
The last Anglo-French frontier
British imperialism and the fall of the French empire
Detroit, De Chartres, and Michilimackinac
Colonial mismanagement and the Quebec Act
Fur trade and the American Revolution.
v. 2: Fur trade problems at the close of the Revolution
The Northwest and Jay's Treaty
Sea otters, seals, and the China trade
Federal regulations and government posts
Business, politics, and the fur trade
Reconquest of the Old Northwest
Spanish Louisiana and Florida
Spain, the Southwest, and William Panton
The fur traders of upper Louisiana
American advance to the Pacific
Astor's Pacific adventure
Mackenzie, Thompson, and routes to the Pacific
Conflict in British America
Monopoly in British America
Reconquest of the upper Missouri
The Hudson's Bay Company in Oregon
New vistas in the far southwest
The fur trade in history.