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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]
The term "coureur des bois" is most strongly associated with those who engaged in the fur trade in ways that were considered to be outside of the mainstream. [5] Early in the North American fur trade era, this term was applied to men who circumvented the normal channels by going deeper into the wilderness to trade.
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.
Washington Irving wrote about him, making him famous in his lifetime. The Bonneville Salt Flats are named after him. Brown, John: 1817–1889 1841–1849 United States: Fur trapper, trader, rancher, and merchant in and around Pueblo, Colorado. Brown, Kootenay: 1839–1916 1862–1910 Ireland Richard Campbell 1824– United States
Antoine Robidoux (September 24, 1794 – August 29, 1860) was a fur trapper and trader of French-Canadian descent best known for his exploits in the American Southwest in the first half of the 19th century.
An illustration of European and Indigenous fur traders in North America, 1777. The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces of Canada and the northeastern American colonies (soon-to-be northeastern United States).
Michel Laframboise (May 11, 1793 – January 25, 1865) was a French Canadian fur trader in the Oregon Country who settled on the French Prairie in the modern U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Varennes, Quebec, he worked for the Pacific Fur Company, the North West Company, and the Hudson's Bay Company before he later became a farmer and ferry ...
Of French Canadian descent, he was born in St. Louis, as were his mother and most of his brothers, when it was a predominately French-speaking colonial town. After he established his trading post on the Missouri River, it (and the later St. Joseph), became a center for his family enterprise of fur trading .