Tonight, the Duluth City Council is expected to bestow landmark status and protections on a small Fond du Lac property that played a huge role in the non-native settlement of the area. John Jacob ...

GREEN RIVER — In presentations throughout the day for over 100 students attending the Green River High School’s Wyoming History class, mountain men and the fur trade were the topics of a recent ...

Of the mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or rather "Of stinking waters" / Father Allouez -- On the hunting of the Gaspesians / Father Chrestien LeClercq -- The hunting of ...

The fur trade played a large role in shaping early North American economies and cultures. The North American fur trade was a key economic and cultural system linking Indigenous and European peoples, ...

The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. The fur trade influenced ...

It was all about the riches in animal skins. Residents of Pierre Laclede’s wilderness outpost took to the trade with gusto, even to neglecting their fields. Visitors nicknamed the town “Pain Court,” ...

BRATTLEBORO — In the early 1700s this region was a frontier between European colonizers and a threatened Abenaki way of life. For more than 50 years British settlements had worked their way north, ...