Article: Fur Trade
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      487 words ...Fur Trade. Animal pelts have probably...but large‐scale fur trade began only after the arrival...metal tools, and other manufactured goods. The most powerful of these...bearers dominated the American fur trade until the 1830s when declining...Plains ended the ...

Article: The Transformation of Native American Warfare: Trade and the Shift to Economically Motivated Conflict
American Eras;      700+ words ......European manufactured goods during the...Origins of the Fur Trade. The fur trade originated...exchanging manufactured goods for the Indians...Grounds. The fur trade quickly transformed...European manufactured goods induced Native...

Article: A new map of fur trade posts in North America.
Manitoba History;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...During the fur trade period and over the years since that...of geography and other records of the fur trade. Two Canadian authors stand out for...States showing 1,200 North American fur trade post sites. The map is large, 36 x 48...

Article: New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. (Book Reviews).
Michigan Historical Review;  March 22, 1999 ;     368 words ......William Wickem, eds. New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995...in the history of the North American fur trade gather to share their enthusiasm and...

Article: Michael Payne, The Fur Trade in Canada: An Illustrated History.
Manitoba History;  October 1, 2008 ;     352 words ...Michael Payne, The Fur Trade in Canada: An Illustrated History...easy to summarize over 500 years of fur trade history: Payne makes the job even...has approached the history of the fur trade from many angles, having taught high...

Article: JFTC
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations;      4 words ...JFTC Joint Fur Trade Committee

Article: BFTA
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations;      4 words ...BFTA British Fur Trade Alliance

Article: fur trade
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      676 words ......for beaver, which was the staple article of the American fur trade, but fashion changed, and the fur trade declined accordingly. An equally important factor in the decline of fur trade was the advance of settlement, for the trade in wild furs...

Article: Western Canadian fur trade sites and the iconography of public memory.
Manitoba History;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Fur trade sites such as Lower Fort Garry, Fort Langley...scholarly or even popular histories of the fur trade or sit through a university seminar on...Canadian history. (1) In western Canada, fur trade sites are a prominent sector of the heritage...

Article: Fur Trade and Trapping
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...FUR TRADE AND TRAPPING FUR TRADE AND TRAPPING. The North American fur trade from the sixteenth...the children of the fur trade or M é tis, who...useful items, such as manufactured goods, tools, kettles, beads...the continent. French Fur ...

Article: Fur trade wars: the founding of Western Canada.
Manitoba History;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...J.M. Bumsted, Fur Trade Wars: The Founding of Western Canada...historical chestnuts, both old and new. Fur Trade Wars is a popular account of an important...publication by the Manitoba Record Society. Fur Trade Wars is based on excellent research...

Article: New Netherland and New York
American Eras;      700+ words ...New Netherland and New York Fur Trade. When in 1609 Henry Hudson sailed his...martens and foxes. ” Thus the fur trade began early. Until 1621 when the Dutch West India Company was incorporated, the fur trade allowed individuals such as the West...

Article: George Nelson. My First Years in the Fur Trade: the Journals of 1802-1804.(Book Review)
Michigan Historical Review;  March 22, 2003 ;     417 words ......Cloth, $29.95. My First Years in the Fur Trade is the first in what editors Laura Peers...of his two-decades-long career in the fur trade more accessible. In 1802, at the age...understand. Such details are what will attract fur-trade scholars to this valuable source. Nelson...

Article: Astor, John Jacob
A Dictionary of World History;      73 words ......and financier. He entered the American fur trade and by 1800 had established the beginnings...Company, formed in 1808, dominated the fur trade in the prairies and mountains within a decade. In 1834 he sold his interest in the fur trade and spent his remaining years managing...