The book is based on the life of Jacob Fahlstrom, the first Swedish settler in Minnesota, and focuses on the fur trade in the early 1800s in North America. Bergeron, ...

"The trade in fur was instrumental in shaping events on the continent from the early 1600s to the late 1800s: it triggered imperial wars, exploration and the expansion of the USA itself." ...

The booming North American fur trade was just what he was looking for. In 1810 he met Wilson Price Hunt of the Pacific Fur Company in Montreal, went with him to New York and took a job as a clerk ...

“Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America” (W.W. Norton & Co., $29.95), by Eric Jay Dolin. Beavers are big rodents – some over 39 inches long – with floppy ...

Her descriptions of the fur trade, 1800s Green Bay, and the Peshtigo Fire provide a window into life in early Wisconsin. Aired: 07/31/24 Rating: NR ...

Schmid, of Byron Center, is wearing French voyageur clothing typical from the 1800s. "They were the truck drivers of the fur trade, " he said. LOWELL — Two hundred years ago, ...

More than 180 years ago, at the peak of the beaver fur trade in the West, groups of 100 men and several hundred horses would make annual circuits through Central ...

National Park Service archaeologist Doug Wilson will discuss how the 1800s fur trade affected local waterways in a presentation at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at the Old Liberty Theater, 113 N. Main ...

Beaver hats and buckskin britches are little more than historical curiosities now — reminders of a long-vanished European fashion craze that reached its zenith in the early 1800s. But beginni… ...

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to ban fur sales. The ban will begin next Jan. 1, though retailers have until 2020 to sell their inventory.

In the 1800s, abundant fur seal rookeries dotted the South Island’s rugged ... Although historians had an inkling there was a clandestine trade in fur seal pelts between Australia and ...