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The North West Company fur trader Francois-Antoine Larocque travelled parts of the eastern present-day Montana in 1805, [1]: 156–220 and the following explorations of the Lewis and Clark Expedition opened the area further for commerce.
At the start of the 19th century, the North American fur trade was expanding toward present-day Montana from two directions. Representatives of British and Canadian fur trade companies, primarily the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, pushed west and south from their stronghold on the Saskatchewan River, while American trappers and traders followed the trail of the Lewis and ...
Henry Fraeb, also called Frapp, was a mountain man, fur trader, and trade post operator of the American West, operating in the present-day states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. Early life [ edit ]
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Hafen, Leroy R. (1982), Mountain Men & Fur Traders of the Far West, Lincoln: Bison Book University of Nebraska Press; Ingham, John M. (1983), Biographical dictionary of American business leaders, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-23907-X; Irving, Washington (1836), Astoria, Paris: Baudry's European Library
Oct. 20—Kalispell is one of four Montana communities to receive federal housing tax credits for affordable housing, the Montana Department of Commerce announced Tuesday. Kalispell's Junegrass ...
Milton Green Sublette (c. 1801–1837), was an American frontiersman, 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.
Robert Stuart (February 19, 1785 – October 28, 1848) was a Scottish-born, Canadian and American fur trader, best known as a member of the first European-American party to cross South Pass during an overland expedition from Fort Astoria to Saint Louis in 1811.