“And I realized I’d been born too late.” The Western fur trade began after the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1805–06. In 1825 the first annual trappers’ gathering was held near ...

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 ...

another great Canadian fur-trading company was born. The North West Company took its trade to the Indians by establishing a network of inland trading posts in the western territory. (As portrayed ...

End the fur trade now in order to prevent future pandemics, some of the world's leading health experts will warn today - speaking out on what they called a ticking time bomb. Filthy fur farms ...

Starting with a 300-Year Battle for Control of Canada’s Fur Trade THUNDER BAY - BUSINESS - For over three centuries, two of ...

A representative from the American Fur Industry, a trade association, told The New York Times that by the late 1980s, retail sales reached a record $1.9 billion. In those days, business was ...