Real Men Hunt Buffalo: Masculinity, Race and Class in British Fur Traders' Narratives

Gender and History

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-21

  Vibert, Elizabeth ^a  

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EID: 0041389208     PISSN: 09535233     EISSN: 14680424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.1996.tb00221.x     Document Type: Article

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14. David Thompson, 'Narrative', in David Thompson's Narrative of his Explorations in Western America, 7784-7872, ed. 1. B. Tyrrell (Champlain Society, Toronto, 1916), p. 80.
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17. William Beinart, 'Empire, Hunting and Ecological Change in Southern and Central Africa', hst and Present, 128 (1 990), pp. 162-86
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20. MacKenzie, Empire of Nature, pp. 86-95
21. Beinart, 'Empire, Hunting', pp. 163, 167, 174
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24. MacKenzie, Empire of Nature, p. 95
25. Beinart, 'Empire, Hunting', p. 163.
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27. Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982), ch. 6.
28. Ross Cox, The Columbia Rivers, or Scenes and Adventures .., ed. E. I. Stewart and 1. R. Stewart (London, 1831; repr. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1957), pp. 230, 360
29. Alexander Ross, Fur Hunters of the Far West, ed. K. A. Spaulding (London, 1855; repr. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1956), pp. 7-1 0, 19-20
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31. Michael Payne, 'Daily Life on Western Hudson Bay 1 71 4-1 870: A Social History of York Factory and Churchill' (Carleton University PhD dissertation, 1989),pp. 389-90.
32. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 7780-7850 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987), pp. 17
33. Quoted in Van Kirk, 'Many Tender Ties', p. 136.
34. Rev. William Cockran, quoted in Van Kirk, 'Many Tender Ties', p. 172.
35. Van Kirk, 'Many Tender Ties', and Christine Welsh, 'Voices of the Grandmothers: Reclaiming a M6tis Heritage', Canadian Literature, 131 (1991),pp. 15-25
36. George Simpson, 'Journal 1824-25', in Fur Trade and Empire: George Simpson's journal .. 7824-25, ed. Frederick Merk (1931; repr. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1968), p. 140'
37. Davidoff and Hall, Family Fortunes, pp. 108-1 8.
38. Thompson, 'Narrative', p. 533.
39. Cox, The Columbia, pp. 264, 267.
40. Cox, The Columbia, pp. 9 3 4 , 21 5.
41. Cox, The Columbia, p. 81
42. Ross, Fur Hunters, p. 200
43. Alexander Ross, Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River (London, 1849; repr. Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1923), pp. 243, 268
44. Thompson, 'Narrative', pp. 548-52.
45. Ross, Fur Hunters, pp. 243
46. Thompson, 'Narrative', p. 432.
47. Thompson, 'Narrative', pp. 411
48. Ross, Fur Hunters, pp. 48-52, 114.
49. Graham Dawson, 'The Blond Bedouin: Lawrence of Arabia, Imperial Adventure, and the Imagining of English-British Masculinity', and other essays in Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain since 7 800, ed. Michael Roper and John Tosh (Routledge, London and New York, 1991)
50. Catherine Hall, White, Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History (Polity and Routledge, London and New York, 1992)
51. J. A. Mangan and James Walvin (eds) Manliness and Morality: Middle-class Masculinity in Britain and America, 1800-7 940 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1987)
52. Lynne Segal, Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men (Virago, London, 1990), esp. ch. 7
53. Mrinalini Sinha, 'Gender and Imperialism: Colonial Policy and the Ideology of Moral Imperialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal', in Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity, ed. Michael S. Kimmel (Sage, London, 1987). Also suggestive are Helen Cal laway, Gender, Culture and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1987)
54. Ross, Fur Hunters, pp. 154-5