cotton and bean crops within the fort. Sutter's empire extended into the fur trade and ranching business. In 1847, Sutter commissioned an associate of his, James Marshall, to build a sawmill 50 ...

By the early 1870s, more than a dozen forts - stocked with whiskey for trade - had been built on Blackfoot territory. Along with the devastation of alcohol, the fur trade was also contributing to ...

When he visited Fort Orange (the site of present day Albany ... Radisson's brother-in-law, Mdard Chouart des Groseilliers was a fur trader who had journeyed into the western country as far ...

ADA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The Averill Historical Museum in Ada is bringing people back to the 1820s and 1830s this weekend with its Fur Trader Encampment. This year’s encampment ...