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 ...

Don’t miss Women of the Fur Trade — a satire by Anishinaabe and ... for 21st-century slang who find themselves stuck in a fort having tea and sharing their views on life, love and Riel.

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 ...