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  2. Fur trade - Wikipedia

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    Souvenirs of the Fur Trade: Northwest Coast Indian Art and Artifacts Collected by American Mariners, 1788–1844. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press, 2000. Ray, Arthur J. Indians in the Fur Trade: Their Role as Trappers, Hunters, and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660–1870.

  3. North American fur trade - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Fur trade in Montana - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Rocky Mountain Rendezvous - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Mountain man - Wikipedia

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    The fur industry was failing because of reduced demand and over trapping. With the rise of the silk trade and quick collapse of the North American beaver-based fur trade in the 1830s–1840s, many of the mountain men settled into jobs as Army scouts, wagon train guides or settled throughout the lands which they had helped open up. Others, like ...

  7. Proposed fur ban irks trappers, fly tiers - AOL

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    Jan. 26—A bill seeking to ban the sale of fur products in Washington has raised the hackles of trappers and fly tiers. Senate Bill 6294, sponsored by Sen. Derek Stanford, D-Bothell, would ...

  8. Rocky Mountain Fur Company - Wikipedia

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    Growing competition motivated the trappers to explore and head deeper into the wilderness. This led to greater knowledge of the topography and to great reductions in the beaver populations. Eventually the intense competition for fewer and fewer beavers and the transient style of fur hats brought the Rocky Mountain Fur Company down.

  9. Fur brigade - Wikipedia

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    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 ...