At the time of the American Revolution, the United States consisted of 13 colonies located along the eastern cost of North ...
The Plymouth History Center will hold its first traveling exhibit, Fur Trade in Minnesota, Saturday, May 2 through Monday, ...
The confluence of rivers is an ideal place for human settlement, offering strategic, spiritual and practical reasons for occupation. One such location is two miles north of the mo ...
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 ...
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 ...