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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]
Modern fur trapping and trading in North America is part of a wider $15 billion global fur industry where wild animal pelts make up only 15 percent of total fur output. In 2008, the global recession hit the fur industry and trappers especially hard with greatly depressed fur prices thanks to a drop in the sale of expensive fur coats and hats ...
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 ...
The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and the Overland Commerce with Santa Fe. 2 vols. (1902). full text online; Dolin, Eric Jay (2010). Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America (1st ed.).
Fur trapper, trader, rancher, and merchant in and around Pueblo, Colorado. Brown, Kootenay: 1839–1916 1862–1910 Ireland Richard Campbell 1824– United States: Led first trapper party (from Taos) to sell beaver pelts in California, 1827 [4] Campbell, Robert: 1804–1879 1825–1835 Ireland Carson, Kit: 1809–1868 1825–1868 United States
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.
At the end of the century, Matthews transferred the manuscript to Elliott Coues, a brother officer in the Medical Corps, and an annotated version (the Coues edition) was hence published in 1898. Milo Quaife later reedited Larpenteur's manuscript as close as possible to its original form, a version (the Quaife edition) which was published in 1933.
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.