The Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska, preserves fur trade history with exhibits, a reconstructed Bordeaux trading ...

The city was founded for the fur trade and outgrew it only after fur wealth had helped establish its early industrial might.

The fur trade played a large role in shaping early North American economies and cultures. The North American fur trade was a key economic and cultural system linking Indigenous and European peoples, ...

Of the mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or rather "Of stinking waters" / Father Allouez -- On the hunting of the Gaspesians / Father Chrestien LeClercq -- The hunting of ...

The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. The fur trade influenced ...

By the 1840s, beaver fur hats had fallen out of fashion — silk was the most popular material. The American Fur Company, which had its headquarters in Mendota, dissolved in 1847, according to a ...

Despite a plethora of protests from animal activist groups over the past decade, the global fur trade is on the rise. According to a 2012-13 study unveiled this week by Pricewaterhouse Coopers Italy ...