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The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800–1820 (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2016). xiv, 336 pp. Malloy, Mary. "Boston Men" on the Northwest Coast: The American Maritime Fur Trade 1788–1844. Kingston, Ontario; Fairbanks, Alaska: The Limestone Press, 1998. Panagopoulos, Janie Lynn. "Traders in Time".
The fur trade did not involve barter in the way that most people presuppose but was a credit/debit relationship when a fur trader would arrive in a community in the summer or fall, hand out goods to the Indians who would pay him back in the spring with the furs from the animals they had killed over the winter; in the interim, further exchanges ...
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F. Factor (agent) Factory (trading post) Fair American; Felt; Fenis and St. Joseph; Flatboat; Flow device; Fort Astoria; Fort Boise; Fort Bridger; Fort Carondelet
The United States Government Fur Trade Factory System was a system of government non-profit trading with Native Americans that existed between 1795 and 1822. The factory system was set up on the initiative of George Washington who thought it would neutralize the influence of British traders doing business on United States territory.
The same year, 1862, Larpenteur became a fur trader with a new company, La Barge, Harkness & Company. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1864 Larpenteur was back at Fort Union, now as Bourgeois or manager. Within a short time, however, the fort was sold the new Northwestern Fur Company, and Larpenteur resigned.
The fur trade's killing of beavers proved devastating for the North American beaver population. [48] The natural ecosystems that came to rely on the beavers for dams, water and other vital needs were also devastated leading to ecological destruction, environmental change, and drought in certain areas.