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Firewater : the impact of the whisky trade on the Blackfoot nation / Hugh A. Dempsey.
- Title
- Firewater : the impact of the whisky trade on the Blackfoot nation / Hugh A. Dempsey.
- Author
- Dempsey, Hugh A. (Hugh Aylmer), 1929-
- Publication
- Calgary : Fifth House Publishers; Allston, MA : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2002.
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| Text | Request in advance | E99 S54 D43 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 248 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Firewater "reveals the disturbing and controversial history of Montana whisky traders and the Blackfoot nation. Between 1870 and 1875, hundreds of Blackfoot died, became impoverished, and lost their sense of self as a result of this "noxious trade," forever damaging their communities, families, and legacy."--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-243) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Beginnings of the liquor trade -- 2. The turbulent sixties -- 3. The merchants -- 4. Off to the British possessions -- 5. Rush to the North -- 6. The standoff -- 7. A devastating traffic -- 8. The wolfers & the Cypress Hills massacre -- 9. The Canadian response -- 10. Chaos and misery -- 11. Unsettled times -- 12. Vagaries of the law -- 13. Beginning of the end -- 14. The Queen's mounted police -- 15. South of the border -- 16. What became of them?
- ISBN
- 1894004965 :
- LCCN
- ^^2002489308
- OCLC
- 50111797
- SCSB-11363947
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library