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At the start of the 19th century, the North American fur trade was expanding toward present-day Montana from two directions. Representatives of British and Canadian fur trade companies, primarily the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, pushed west and south from their stronghold on the Saskatchewan River, while American trappers and traders followed the trail of the Lewis and ...
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).
Milton Green Sublette (c. 1801–1837), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man.He was the second of five Sublette brothers prominent in the western fur trade; William, Andrew, and Solomon.
Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 105–119. Quaife, Milo M. (1989). "Historical Introduction". Charles Larpenteur, Forty Years a Fur Trader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Sunder John. E (1993). The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840–1865. Norman: University of ...
Fur Trappers and Traders of the Far Southwest. 1965, Utah State University Press, Logan, Utah, (1997 reprint). ISBN 0-87421-235-9. Orville C. Loomer, "Fort Henry," Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings September 13–15, 1990 (Williston, Friends of Fort Union Trading Post, 1994), 79. Maguire, James H., Peter Wild, and Donald Barclay (eds.)
Fur trappers & merchants The Rocky Mountain Rendezvous was an annual rendezvous , held between 1825 and 1840 at various locations, organized by a fur trading company at which trappers and mountain men sold their furs and hides and replenished their supplies.
Antoine Robidoux (September 24, 1794 – August 29, 1860) was a fur trapper and trader of French-Canadian descent best known for his exploits in the American Southwest in the first half of the 19th century. Signature of Antoine Robidoux in 1845
Fur brigades were convoys of canoes and boats used to transport supplies, trading goods and furs in the North American fur trade industry. Much of it consisted of native fur trappers , most of whom were Métis , and fur traders who traveled between their home trading posts and a larger Hudson's Bay Company or Northwest Company post in order to ...