Fur trapping is as old as North Dakota itself, and while the practice remains part of the state’s heritage, today’s trappers ...

The history of Onigamiising, this place of the small portage, has been interwoven with the history of the fur trade for more than 300 years. The fur trade era arrived here in 1679, when Daniel ...

Crow Wing County residents may not know about James McGill, but the English fur trader helped settle the area 250 years ago. McGill is the first documented English fur trader to winter in central ...

WHEN, in 1808, the Missouri Fur Company, operating from St. Louis, and the American Fur Company, with headquarters in New York, obtained their charters, fur-trading on a great scale in the United ...

LANCASTER — On a cold and sunny winter day on Dec. 30, six local residents gathered at a rural road near the Lancaster-Berks line and unloaded a wooden canoe, a faux fur and an old jug of the kind ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Mike Josephson showed some of the tools of Wisconsin’s fur trade and talked about the impact fur trade had on Green Bay’s economy and culture. He ...

Tonight, the Duluth City Council is expected to bestow landmark status and protections on a small Fond du Lac property that played a huge role in the non-native settlement of the area. John Jacob ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A two-day event at Heritage Hill brought people back to the 1700s, showing what it was like as a French fur trader in northeast Wisconsin. Over 100 people attended the ...

DANBURY– Morning arrives with the smell of bacon and eggs cooking over an open campfire, the flames popping as they consume oak logs. More campfires, and more smells … venison steaks, fried bread, ...

The area near the confluence of the Spokane and the Little Spokane rivers near Nine Mile Falls housed the first permanent white settlement in the area in 1810. But it was a significant settlement of ...

That’s what author and illustrator Carl Gawboy wrote next to a hand-drawn map of Minnesota in his book “Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe’s Graphic History.” Gawboy’s pen-and-ink drawing shows the state ...