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A fur trapper was a mountain man who, in today's terms, would be called a free agent. He was independent and traded his pelts to whoever would pay him the best price. That contrasts with a "company man", typically indebted to one fur company for the cost of his gear, who traded only with that company and was often under the direct command of ...
An illustration of European and Indigenous fur traders in North America, 1777. The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces of Canada and the northeastern American colonies (soon-to-be northeastern United States).
History of the Fur Trade in Russia Archived 2007-12-28 at the Wayback Machine; History of the Fur Trade in Wisconsin Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine; Museum of the Fur Trade, Chadron, Nebraska US; The Economic History of the Fur Trade: 1670 to 1870 (EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic History) Fur trade in the Snake River Valley, Idaho
In 1815, La Ramée organized a free-trapper rendezvous at the junction of the North Platte and what is now named the Laramie rivers. Later fur-trading companies held annual rendezvous here. [11] For five years these events attracted more trappers and traders, and a trade market was established, in addition to routes to and from supply depots. [11]
This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Most moved on to other endeavors, but a few of them followed or adopted the mountain man life style into the 20th century.
During his forty years in the fur trade Larpenteur diligently kept a diary, using it as a source to complement his memory when he wrote his memoir. Unable to finance publication of the memoir, he sent the manuscript to Washington Matthews , a U.S. Army surgeon he had known at Fort Buford.
William Lewis Sublette, also spelled Sublett (September 21, 1798 – July 23, 1845), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man.After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with his four brothers.
Fitzpatrick went to work for the fur traders, joining the likes of Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, Louis Vasquez, Étienne Provost, and William Lewis Sublette. [6] He survived an attack on the Rocky Mountain Fur Company during the Arikara War of 1823. [6] The Arikara were successful in preventing the trappers from traveling the Missouri River.