The North American fur trade began around 1500 off the coast of Newfoundland and became one of the most powerful industries in US history. In Minnesota country, the Dakota and the Ojibwe traded in ...

The North American fur trade played a major role in the history of European and Native interactions. This trade of goods led to exploration, political alliances, new cultures, and more.

“Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America” (W.W. Norton & Co., $29.95), by Eric Jay Dolin. Beavers are big rodents – some over 39 inches long – with floppy ...

Centuries before PETA campaigned for animal rights, the fur trade built America. We hear the remarkable history of how fur shaped a nation. Buffalo hides in Dodge City, Kansas. Photograph April 4 ...

A review of "Fur, Fortune and Empire," Eric Jay Dolin's epic history of how the relentless search for furs shaped the settlement of America. Dolin will discuss his book at 7 p.m. Wednesday at ...

Sewell traps on what he calls "a very small scale" and expects to make about $9,000 or $10,000 at the North American Fur Auction in February. Bigger trappers, he says, will walk away with tens of ...

Frontier is being billed as an action-adventure series that will chronicle the North American fur trade in the late 18th century. Momoa will play Declan Harp, a ruthless trader who, not unlike the ...

North American Fur Auctions (NAFA), ... Canada's fur trade contributes nearly $1 billion to the Canadian economy annually, according to the International Fur Federation.

In the winter of 1783, officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company, a powerful British trade organization, crossed the Atlantic on the American ship Carolina. As they talked together on the upper deck ...