• and entrepreneur. Alongside William H. Ashley, Henry was the co-owner of the successful Rocky Mountain Fur Company, otherwise known as "Ashley's Hundred"...
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  • Andrew Henry may refer to: Andrew Henry (VC) (1823–1870), English recipient of the Victoria Cross Andrew Henry (fur trader) (c. 1775–1832), American fur...
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  • West Virginia Fort Henry, a winter camp built by Andrew Henry (fur trader) on Henry's Fork of the Snake River in 1810-11 Fort Henry National Historic Site...
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  • Andrew Todd (c. 1754–1796) was an Ulster merchant and fur trader at Montreal and Louisiana. Born into a wealthy family at Coleraine, County Londonderry...
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    penetrated deeper into Siberia, traders built outposts or winter lodges called zimovye [ru] where they lived and collected fur tribute from native tribes....
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  • known as the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1822 by William Henry Ashley and Andrew Henry. Among the original employees...
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    William Sublette (category American fur traders)
    American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with his four...
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  • politician, frontiersman, fur trader, entrepreneur, hunter, and slave owner. Ashley was best known for being the co-owner with Andrew Henry of the highly-successful...
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  • John Henry Weber (1779–1859) was an American fur trader and explorer. Weber was active in the early years of the fur trade, exploring territory in the...
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    The question of whether Andrew Jackson (lifespan 1767–1845, presidency 1829–1837) had been a "negro trader" was a campaign issue during the 1828 United...
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  • for fur was high, fueled by the fashion of beaver hats. A recent arrival to St. Louis, trader Manuel Lisa heard the reports and made his first fur-trading...
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    Thomas Fitzpatrick (trapper) (category American fur traders)
    experienced fur trapper and trader, Andrew Henry had built Fort Henry a trading post at Yellowstone in 1822. Fitzpatrick went to work for the fur traders, joining...
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  • Later in 1809, Rose worked for Lisa's partner Andrew Henry at a trading post in present-day North Dakota. Henry employed Rose as an interpreter through the...
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    Hugh Glass (category American fur traders)
    Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness...
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    American fur traders and trappers and the Blackfeet, particularly the Blood. Misunderstanding of indigenous peoples' interests by American traders inevitably...
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  • Milton Sublette (category American fur traders)
    trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. He was the second of five Sublette brothers prominent in the western fur trade; William, Andrew, and Solomon...
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    the Bighorn and Yellowstone rivers. In March 1810, along with fur trader Andrew Henry, Menard led thirty-three men to the headwaters of the Missouri...
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  • (1764–1825), fur trader Duncan McIntyre (1834–1894), businessman Simon McTavish (1750–1804), fur trader, saw mill and flour mill operator Henry Morgan (1819–1893)...
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  • Andrew Whitley Sublette or also, spelled Sublett (1808 – December 19, 1853, or 1854), was a frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, mountain man...
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  • David Edward Jackson (category American fur traders)
    Jackson (c. 1788 – December 24, 1837) was an American pioneer, trapper, fur trader, and explorer. Davey Jackson has often been referenced to as a son of...
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  • Gulian Verplanck (1637–1684) (category American fur traders)
    colonial American fur trader and merchant in New York. He was the eldest son of Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck, was a merchant, fur trader, and purchaser of...
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  • complexion, in 1822 Scott was employed by William Henry Ashley and Andrew Henry's Rocky Mountain Fur Company, a pioneering enterprise which funded explorations...
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    first recorded tourist to present-day South Dakota, hosted by fur trader Manuel Lisa. Henry was appointed deputy attorney general and district judge of...
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    James Charles Stuart Strange (category Fur traders)
    British officer of the East India Company, one of the first maritime fur traders, a banker, and a Member of Parliament. James Charles Stuart Strange was...
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    Jerry Potts (category American fur traders)
    (Crooked Back), and Andrew R. Potts, a Scottish fur trader. Upon the death of his father in 1840, Jerry was given to American Fur Company trader Alexander Harvey...
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    Manuel Lisa (category American fur traders)
    merchant, fur trader, United States Indian agent, and explorer. Lisa was among the founders, in St. Louis, of the Missouri Fur Company, an early fur trading...
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    English geologist, John Bigsby, relates the character of these Montreal fur traders in their early days: A number of young men, chiefly of good Scotch families...
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  • northern Mississippi River. She married her first husband, English-Canadian fur trader Thomas Gummersall Anderson, while just a young girl of 15. Together, they...
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    with the "plains rifle", the buffalo gun, and a trade rifle for fur trappers, traders, clerks, and hunters.: 32  It was displaced after the American Civil...
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    James Murray Yale (category Canadian fur traders)
    1871) was a clerk, and later, a Chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, during the late North American fur trade, as they were competing with the...
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