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    The fur trade in Montana was a major period in the area's economic history from about 1800 to the 1850s. It also represents the initial meeting of cultures...
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    The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces...
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    The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern...
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  • Company, quickly absorbed Ashley's creation.: 124–125  Fur trade in Montana Joseph LaBarge – Fur trader and steamboat captain on the Missouri River The...
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    in North American fur trade. Expanding into many former British fur-trapping regions and trade routes, the company grew to monopolize the fur trade in...
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    Center Fur trade in Montana List of National Historic Landmarks in Montana National Register of Historic Places listings in Roosevelt County, Montana List...
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    The maritime fur trade, a ship-based fur trade system, focused largely on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of...
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    arranged list of trading posts or forts in present-day Montana from 1807 to the end of the fur trading era in the state. The North West Company fur trader Francois-Antoine...
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    Point Fur trade in Montana Notable figures in Montana history Territorial evolution of Montana Bibliography of Montana history Culture of Montana Museums...
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    Missoula, Montana: Montana Press Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87842-632-4. A Son of the Fur Trade 2008, p. 66. A Son of the Fur Trade 2008, p. 94...
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  • Fort Raymond (category Fur trade)
    outpost established by fur trader Manuel Lisa. Alternatively it was called either Manuel's Fort or Fort Manuel. It was the first trading post maintained by...
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    California's early fur trade, more than any other single factor, that opened up the West, and the San Francisco Bay Area in particular, to world trade. The massive...
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  • Missouri Fur Company (also known as the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company or the Manuel Lisa Trading Company) was one of the earliest fur trading companies in St...
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    Euro-Americans in what today is Montana was St. Mary's, established in 1841 near present-day Stevensville. In 1847, Fort Benton was built as the uppermost fur-trading...
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    Rocky Mountain Rendezvous (category Fur trade)
    Wyoming. 1839: Daniel, Wyoming. 1840: Daniel, Wyoming. Red River Jig Fur trade in Montana Bonner, Thomas D. (1856). The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth...
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    and in many cases, physically improved by the mountain men and the big fur companies, originally to serve the mule train-based inland fur trade. Mountain...
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  • This is a list of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts. For the fur trade in general see North American fur trade and Canadian canoe routes (early). For...
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    city in and the county seat of Teton County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,721 at the 2020 census. Choteau is named for French fur merchant...
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    Métis (redirect from Métis in Canada)
    the mid-18th century, during the early years of the North American fur trade. In Canada, the Métis, with a population of 624,220 as of 2021, are one...
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    was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in the regions...
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    expansion. In 1799, the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company each established the Rocky Mountain House and Acton House fur trading posts. Trade with...
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  • Iron Confederacy (category Fur trade)
    west with the fur trade). The Confederacy rose to predominance on the northern Plains during the height of the North American fur trade when they operated...
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    (trading post) Fur trade Karum (trade post) Navajo trading posts Panton, Leslie & Company Trading Post (newspaper) United States Government Fur Trade Factory...
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  • Fur trading on the Assiniboine River and the general area west of Lake Winnipeg, in what is now Manitoba, Canada, began as early as 1731. Lake Winnipeg...
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    Montana at what became Bannack and Virginia City beginning in 1862, and Helena beginning in 1865. With the decline of the fur trade, the American Fur...
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    River. In 1866, the Rocky Mountain Wagon Road Company built a trading post named Kerchival City. Flooding destroyed the post. The Montana Hide and Fur Company...
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    established in 1865 as one of the original nine counties of Montana, and named in 1882 after Pierre Chouteau Jr., a fur trader who established a trading post...
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    Saskatchewan River fur trade The Saskatchewan River was one of the two main axes of Canadian expansion west of Lake Winnipeg. The other and more important...
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  • mountain man, fur trader, and trade post operator of the American West, operating in the present-day states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. Fraeb, of...
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    Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813. It was based in the...
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