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Aspects of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the 1965 North American Fur Trade
Conference (1967) -- short papers by several scholars on the fur trade describing how
it operated and how it influenced regional, national, and international history.
Charles M. Gates, ed. Five Fur Traders of the Northwest (1933) -- contains the
diaries and narratives of five men who participated in the fur trade on the Great Lakes
with much relevant information on the trade in the lands that became Minnesota.
Carolyn Gilman, The Grand Portage Story (1992) -- an excellent short book that
combines the history of this important fur trading center with an account of how the site
was made into a national historical monument.
Carolyn Gilman, Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade (1982) -- well
done narrative history of the fur trade in the region.
Nancy and Robert Goodman, Joseph R. Brown: Adventurer on the Minnesota Frontier
(1996) -- the first of a planned two-volume study of Brown, this details Brown's role in
the fur trade in Minnesota during the pre-territorial and territorial period of the 1800s.
Grace lee Nute, The Voyageur's Highway: Minnesota's Border Lake Land (1941) --
nice account of the French fur trade in the northeast lake area of Minnesota together with
details on how the region developed afterward.