Business owners dream of having a captive audience for their products. But in the mid-18th century, a businessman had the Alle-Kiski Valley and much of Western Pennsylvania to himself. Pierre (Peter) ...
ADA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The Averill Historical Museum in Ada is bringing people back to the 1820s and 1830s this weekend with its Fur Trader Encampment. This year’s encampment, held Friday ...
Some 180 years ago, just south of Iowa City along the Iowa River, pioneer fur trader John Gilbert was scrabbling for a living by procuring fox, deer, beaver and raccoon pelts for his Eastern customers ...
Sometime in 1831, a French-American fur trader carved an inscription on a sandstone surface near what is today Whiterocks, Utah, not far from the Uintah River. The message said simply: “Denis Julien ...
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