Author Eric Jay Dolin talked about the roots of the fur trade. From the early 16th through the 19th centuries, Europeans, Americans, and Native American people engaged in fur trade in the New World.

After decades of coordinated campaigning, involving protests and even personal attacks outside stores and fashion shows, at ...

Can you believe that we are in August already? The sun is high, the cicadas are buzzing, and if you look closely you can see the end of summer in sight. It’s a time of year that means ...

A representative from the American Fur Industry, a trade association, told The New York Times that by the late 1980s, retail sales reached a record $1.9 billion. In those days, business was ...

In return, Monroe rescinded several executive orders damaging to Astor, including one forbidding the employment of foreigners in the fur trade (the American Fur Co. employed more foreigners than ...

The fur trade was based on the barter system and in ... dense fur closest to the skin of the animal.) Although the North American natives traded beaver pelts to the Europeans, they thought the ...

You may or may not have heard the story of Martin McLeod. I’ve written about him several times, and if you’ve ever been to McLeod County Historical Museum, you’ll know that he is ...

Bill Gwaltney Gwaltney, a member of the Fur Trade Museum, plans to speak about the diversity of the fur trade industry ...

Most sources mention him only in passing as part of Scotland’s general involvement in the American fur trade. His legacy lives on mostly through the paintings of Alfred Jacob Miller. This is ...

The Salteaux-Slovene/Anishinaabe playwright and theatre artist from Ontario’s Couchiching First Nation, won the 2015 Tom Hendry award for best new comedy for her play The Dance-off of Conscious ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American ... on the fur trade in Britain.