Mondays – Forts, Furs and Frontier: 1776 in Western America
6/22 & 6/29 @ 11:00 AM/CH
Instructor: Professor Judy Okun
In 1776, while the 13 colonies were rising up against Britain, the rest of North America was a patchwork of empires competing through a web of conquest, exploration, settlement and trade. From Spanish missions in California to Native American trade centers on the Missouri River, Captain Cook’s voyage up the Pacific Coast in search of the Northwest Passage, Russian forays to Alaska for sea otter pelts, the Hudson Bay Company’s quest for fur-trade dominance, and the expanding Plains empire of the Comanche, we will explore how diverse peoples shaped the continent & 6
