European demand for fur pelts and wheat helped shape early American agriculture. Learn how global markets drove farming expansion in the ...

By Philippe Willis Contributing Writer In the gray and still-leafless, late winter mountains of central West Virginia, ...

The mountains -- The Shoshone: first people in the valley -- The "Hole" story -- Pierre Tevanitagon -- John Colter and Pierre's Hole: 1807-1808 -- Andrew Henry and the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company: ...

The following is a news release from Idaho State University: POCATELLO, Idaho — Experience an evening honoring Indigenous Resilience as Dr. S. Matthew DeSpain presents traditional Far West fur trade ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Local history buffs take pride in momentous years like 1805, when legendary explorers Lewis and Clark first passed by here on their way to the Pacific Ocean, and 1825, when Fort Vancouver was ...