The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven prime beaver pelts, a gun cost 14 pelts. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) (Underwool is ...
We were tromping out onto a wetland frozen nine inches deep. It felt like how the fur trade began, someplace long ago, far away. Bill Mackowski, in his 60th year of trapping, mostly around ...
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The Detroit fur trade and beyondTheir melanin melded with a part of American history their enslaved ancestors helped carry on their backs. “They talk about the fur trade being a big kind of money maker for Europeans ...
(The Columbian files) In the fur trade, New Year’s Day, not Christmas, was the season’s more beloved holiday. Before Christmas and after New Year’s Day, Hudson’s Bay Company Fort Vancouver ...
(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Competition between the two ... along with their part of the fur trade. This vacuum was filled by English pedlars (as the HBC dismissively called ...
On This Day in 1959, Alaska—One of America’s Riskiest Investments—Became the 49th State in the Union
Before Alaska became an American state, Russia invaded and subjugated its people for fur trading Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent America’s largest state—encompassing mountains, coasts ...
Explore the fascinating people and places of Minnesota’s first global business in “Fur Trade in Minnesota,” a new traveling exhibit from the Minnesota History Center coming to Gammelgården Museum (208 ...
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