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Walker, Don D. "Philosophical and Literary Implications in the Historiography of the Fur Trade," Western American Literature, (1974) 9#2 pp 79–104 Le Roy, Bruce, ed. (1961). H.M. Chittenden—A Western Epic—Being a Selection from his unpublished Journals, Diaries and Reports .
Denig was the son of a prosperous county doctor, yet he chose to dedicate his adult life to the fur trade.In 1833 he entered into the service of the American Fur Company as a clerk, first at Fort Pierre, and from 1837 at Fort Union.
Ewing Young: His expeditions across Western North America. Ewing Young was born in Tennessee to a farming family in 1799. [1] In the early 1820s, he had moved to Missouri, then the far western edge of the American frontier, not far from the border of the Spanish-controlled territories of present-day Texas, New Mexico and the Southwestern United States.
Some of the many variations of ermine spots found in heraldry over the centuries Ermine fur, from the robes of Peter I of Serbia. Ermine (/ ˈ ɜːr m ɪ n /) in heraldry is a fur, a type of tincture, consisting of a white background with a pattern of black shapes representing the winter coat of the stoat (a species of weasel with white fur and a black-tipped tail).
The History of Reynard The Fox by Henry Morley, 1889. Full text of the Middle Dutch poem; Full text of the Middle Dutch poem with notes; Reinardus, the journal for the International Reynard Society. Anne Lair, "The History of Reynard the Fox: How Medieval Literature Reflects Culture," in: Falling into Medievalism, ed. Anne
Modern fur trapping and trading in North America is part of a wider $15 billion global fur industry where wild animal pelts make up only 15 percent of total fur output. In 2008, the global recession hit the fur industry and trappers especially hard with greatly depressed fur prices thanks to a drop in the sale of expensive fur coats and hats.
On February 24, 1809, Lisa and other prominent fur traders from the St. Louis area formed an association company; its members included Benjamin Wilkinson (nephew of Louisiana Territorial Governor James Wilkinson), Jean Pierre Chouteau (son of St. Louis co-founder René Auguste Chouteau), Auguste Pierre Chouteau (son of Jean Pierre Chouteau), Reuben Lewis (brother of Meriwether Lewis), William ...
The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History is a book written by Harold Innis covering the fur trade era in Canada from the early 16th century to the 1920s. First published in 1930, it comprehensively documents the history of fur trading while extending Innis's analysis of the economic and social implications of Canada ...