Property rights and competition in the depletion of the beaver: Native Americans and the Hudson’s bay company, 1700-1763

The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American History

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 131-149

  Carlos, Ann M ^a   Lewis, Frank D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429496066     Document Type: Chapter

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