Fur trapping is as old as North Dakota itself, and while the practice remains part of the state’s heritage, today’s trappers ...

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 ...

For the first time "in recent memory," fur buyers are at the Northwestern Fur Trappers Association Annual Convention, says Mark Deans, the association's president.

By the 1840s, beaver fur hats had fallen out of fashion — silk was the most popular material. The American Fur Company, which had its headquarters in Mendota, dissolved in 1847, according to a ...

DANBURY– Morning arrives with the smell of bacon and eggs cooking over an open campfire, the flames popping as they consume oak logs. More campfires, and more smells … venison steaks, fried bread, ...

NMAI copy 39088019917533 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contains six papers originally presented at the 1981 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. These papers ...