European demand for fur pelts and wheat helped shape early American agriculture. Learn how global markets drove farming expansion in the ...

The mountains -- The Shoshone: first people in the valley -- The "Hole" story -- Pierre Tevanitagon -- John Colter and Pierre's Hole: 1807-1808 -- Andrew Henry and the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company: ...

Experience the sweet traditions of the past at Heritage Hill State Historical Park, where they are keeping the history of ...

BRATTLEBORO — In the early 1700s this region was a frontier between European colonizers and a threatened Abenaki way of life. For more than 50 years British settlements had worked their way north, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The following is a news release from Idaho State University: POCATELLO, Idaho — Experience an evening honoring Indigenous Resilience as Dr. S. Matthew DeSpain presents traditional Far West fur trade ...