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The United States Government Fur Trade Factory System was a system of government non-profit trading with Native Americans that existed between 1795 and 1822.. The factory system was set up on the initiative of George Washington who thought it would neutralize the influence of British traders doing business on United States territory.
The American Fur Company (AFC) was a prominent American company that sold furs, skins, and buffalo robes. [1] [2] It was founded in 1808, by John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant to the United States. [3] During its heyday in the early 19th century, the company dominated the American fur trade. The company went bankrupt in 1842 and was dissolved ...
The fur trade is the worldwide buying and selling of fur for clothing and other purposes. The fur trade was one of the driving forces of exploration of North America and the Russian Far East. [37] The fur trade has long-lasting effects, specifically on the Natives in North America and the populations of fur bearing animals worldwide.
The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in the regions that later became Western Canada and Northwestern Ontario .
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).
The enterprise that eventually came to be known as the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1822 by William Henry Ashley and Andrew Henry. Among the original employees, known as "Ashley's Hundred," were Jedediah Smith , who went on to take a leading role in the company's operations, and Jim Bridger , who was ...
The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and the Overland Commerce with Santa Fe. 2 vols. (1902). full text online; Dolin, Eric Jay (2010). Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America (1st ed.).
Fort Vancouver was a 19th-century fur trading post built in the winter of 1824–1825. [2] It was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department, located in the Pacific Northwest.