Fur Trade :
The Fur Trade in Michigan's History
The fur trade was a vital industry in the Great Lakes region long before Michigan became a state. From the early days of French-Canadian "voyageurs" who ...
Trapping and the Oklahoma Fur Trade: Then and Now
After statehood in 1907, Oklahoma still had a modest fur trade. Bison skins, deerskins, beaver and other furbearing animals were still used for ...
KSPS Documentaries | The Fur Trade - PBS
Insight into Thompson's early experiences in the fur trade.
FUR TRADE - Encyclopedia Dubuque
Map illustrating the major national participants in the North American fur trade. American Fur Company "friendship" medal given to tribal chiefs to encourage ...
The Fur Trade – River of History Museum, Sault Ste Marie
The North West Company was a major force in the fur trade from the 1770s to 1821. In the 1770s, Montrèal traders began working together to resist the advances ...
The Fur Trade - Mackinac Island - Weebly
Mackinac Island's terrain was a push factor to the establishment of the Fur Trade since the millions of acres of forest land serves as the habitat of fur- ...
Shining Times: Missouri's Fur Trade Story
For the next four decades, men would venture up the Missouri to trap in the streams or trade for beaver pelts—“plews,” as they called them—with the native ...
A brief history of the beaver trade
Beaver pelts could be made into either full-fur or felted-fur hats. Evidence of felted beaver hats in western Europe can be found in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, ...
The Pilgrims' venture in fur trading was very successful during the 1630s. And, while it lasted, the fur trade was essential to the success of Plymouth Colony.
Fur Trade - Nebraska State Historical Society
Fur Trade. During the seventeenth century Native Americans in Nebraska were starting to trade for European goods, such as glass beads and metal items. Whether ...
The French Fur Trade | Wisconsin Historical Society
For most of the eighteenth century, furs came through lakes Michigan and Superior from Wisconsin, Minnesota, western Ontario and many other regions.
La Baye Fur Trade (1770-1830) | Heritage Hill State Historical Park
A trader at La Baye could exchange last year's cargo of metal, guns, cloth fabric, and blankets for a boatload of fine furs which he would take to the “ ...
The Fur Trade :: New Netherland Institute
The furs Natives trapped and then packed overland to Fort Orange were exchanged for iron axes, knives, copper and brass kettles, scissors, pins, awls, and glass ...
Fur Trade - The Economic Historian
Basque fishermen working the cod banks off the coast of Newfoundland made initial contact with Native Americans. Because furs were fashionable, ...
Road to Rendezvous: The Rocky Mountain Fur Trade in 1834
As soon as Europeans came to the coasts of North America, they began trading for furs with the people who already lived here.
The Fur Trade - Frenchtown Historic Site
The Fur Trade ... In 1811, David Thompson of the Northwest Company led a fur trading party down the Columbia River and planted a British flag at the mouth of the ...
Fur Traders and Trappers of the Old West - NPS History
The western fur trade embraces the pe- riod 1807 to 1843, or from the sequel ... either as hunting grounds of the western fur trapper, business centers of the fur ...
Fur Trade | Cooper County Historical Society
All kinds of animals were trapped, but up to about 1845, one of the most sought after was the beaver. Because beaver-skin hats were fashionable for men, the ...
Children of the Fur Trade - OSU Press
John C. Jackson's Children of the Fur Trade gives readers a vivid and memorable portrait of Metis life at the western edge of North America. This informal ...
Men of the Fur Trade, ca. 1620-1770s - ScholarWorks@GVSU
While frontier fur traders generally sought profit before all other considerations when trading with. Native Americans, the experiences of fur traders ...