Pemmican Empire : Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882 (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Changing food-energy regimes in the northern fur trade, 1760?90; 2. The pemmican bioregion, 1790?1810; 3. Food fights and pemmican wars, 1790?1816; 4. Selling bison flesh in the British market after 1821; 5. Commercial war zones in the bison commons, 1835?50; 6. Ending the pemmican era; Conclusion.