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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]
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
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]
Marriage à la façon du pays ([a la fa.sɔ̃ dy pɛ.i]; "according to the custom of the country") refers to the practice of common-law marriage between European fur traders and aboriginal or Métis women in the North American fur trade. [1]: 4 One historian, Sylvia Van Kirk, suggested these marriages were "the basis for a fur trade society". [2]
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. Signature of Antoine Robidoux in 1845
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.
The belief that Marcus Whitman was deliberately poisoning Native Americans infected with measles The Whitman massacre (also known as the Whitman killings and the Tragedy at Waiilatpu ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was the killing of American missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman , along with eleven others, on November 29, 1847.
Toussaint Charbonneau (March 20, 1767 – August 12, 1843) was a French Canadian explorer, fur trapper and merchant who is best known for his role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition as the husband of Sacagawea.