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 ...

(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 ...

Their 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...