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The voyager's ties to fur companies dictated how and where they trapped, whereas the coureur des bois were free to explore and trap in any place they could find. [34] The coureur des bois freedom and intimate ties to the Indigenous peoples resulted in many French people viewing them as only a step above Native American men. [33]
Martin Molinoy Duralde (c. 1736 – November 21, 1822) was a native of France who came to American with the fur trade, surveyed the original square for St. Louis, and served as a Spanish colonial administrator in Louisiana, North America. He is an important source on the Indigenous people of Louisiana and their languages.
Jean-Pierre Chouteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ ʃuto]; 10 October 1758 – 10 July 1849) [1] was a French Creole fur trader, merchant, politician, and slaveholder. An early settler of St. Louis from New Orleans, he became one of its most prominent citizens. He and his family were prominent in establishing the fur trade in the city ...
Over time, many Métis were drawn to the independent trade; they were the descendants of French trappers and native women. The increasing use of currency , as well as the importance of personal contacts and experience in the fur trade, gave an edge to independent traders over the more bureaucratic monopolies. [ 11 ]
In 1815, La Ramée organized a free-trapper rendezvous at the junction of the North Platte and what is now named the Laramie rivers. Later fur-trading companies held annual rendezvous here. [11] For five years these events attracted more trappers and traders, and a trade market was established, in addition to routes to and from supply depots. [11]
Shooting the Rapids, 1879 by Frances Anne Hopkins (1838–1919). Voyageurs (French: [vwajaʒœʁ] ⓘ; lit. ' travellers ') were 18th- and 19th-century French and later French Canadians and others who transported furs by canoe at the peak of the North American fur trade.
Barclay was a British-born frontiersman of the American West. After working in St. Louis as a bookkeeper and clerk, he worked at Bent's Old Fort. He then ventured westward where he was a trapper, hunter, and trader. [1] Beckwourth, Jim: 1798–1866 1824–1866 United States Bent, Charles: 1799–1847 1828–1846 United States Bent, William
A search party found the remains of him and his horse. Drouillard had been beheaded, and his entrails were strewn about in ritual mutilation. From evidence at the site, his comrades said that he must have fought and killed several Native Americans before his death. The Americans hastily buried him in an unmarked grave. [6]