There’s a reason historical fiction author Nikki Rajala titled her presentation at the Morrison County Historical Society ...

McDonald, a Scotsman, was the last and longest-serving chief trader at Fort Colvile, serving from 1858 until the trading hub ...

Furs settle the New World. "As fine a river as can be found" ; The precious beaver ; New Amsterdam rising ; "The Bible and the beaver" -- Clash of empires. Competition, conflict, and chicanery ; "Many ...

That’s what author and illustrator Carl Gawboy wrote next to a hand-drawn map of Minnesota in his book “Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe’s Graphic History.” Gawboy’s pen-and-ink drawing shows the state ...

I see by the newspaper that some Russian River folk are planning a "Fur Ball," inviting people to haul out their grandmothers' fox furs and mink stoles for a celebration in support of the Guerneville ...

North American Fur Trade Conference (6th : 1991 : Mackinac Island, Mich.) siris_sil_476329 ...

Julia Grummitt In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Métis communities emerged across a region of North America known as the historic North-West. These communities were formed by ...

The fur protesters have gone feral. An animal-rights group called The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT USA) has aggressively lashed out at Vogue editors in Manhattan and Brooklyn over the past ...