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  2. Fort Nikolaevskaia - Wikipedia

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    'Ft. St. Nicholas', as shown on an 1867 map of Alaska [1]. Fort Nikolaevskaia (Russian: Форт Николаевская) or Fort St. Nicholas (Russian: Форт Николас), also called Nikolaevskii Redoubt, [2] was a fur trading post founded by the Lebedev-Lastochkin Company (LLC) in Alaska, the first European settlement on the Alaskan mainland. [3]

  3. Russian-American Company - Wikipedia

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    [4] The company ceased its commercial activities in 1881. In 1867, the Alaska Purchase had transferred control of Alaska to the United States and the commercial interests of the Russian-American Company were sold to Hutchinson, Kohl & Company of San Francisco, California, who then renamed their company to the Alaska Commercial Company.

  4. Maritime fur trade - Wikipedia

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    The maritime fur trade, a ship-based fur trade system, focused largely on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. Entrepreneurs also exploited fur-bearing skins from the wider Pacific (from, for example, the Juan Fernández fur seal) and from the Southern ...

  5. Russian colonization of North America - Wikipedia

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    As Baranov secured the Russians' settlements in Alaska, the Shelekhov family continued to work among the top leaders to win a monopoly on Alaska's fur trade. [citation needed] In 1799 Shelekhov's son-in-law, Nikolay Petrovich Rezanov, had acquired a monopoly on the American fur trade from Emperor Paul I. Rezanov formed the Russian-American Company.

  6. North American fur trade - Wikipedia

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    The Chipewyan began trading fur in exchange for metal tools and instruments with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1717, which caused a drastic change in their lifestyle, going from a people engage in daily subsistence activities to a people engaging in far-reaching trade as the Chipewyan become the middlemen between the Hudson's Bay Company and the ...

  7. Gordon, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Gordon (or, in Inupiaq, Pattaktuq, meaning “he/she/it is spanking”, alluding to the pounding of the waves on the shore, as though it is being spanked by someone; [1] also Demarcation) was a former fur trading post in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States on the shore of Demarcation Bay, near the Canadian border in the east.

  8. Johnson County fur store is closing after 38 years, selling ...

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    The fur store, calling itself “Kansas City’s Finest Furrier” on its website, is open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. Few fur stores remain in the area. Alaskan Fur is ...

  9. Russian Mission, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Russian Mission (Central Yupik: Iqugmiut; Russian: Икогмют - Ikogmiut, now Рашен-Мишен) is a city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska. It was the location of a fur trading post of the Russian-American Company in 1842. After the sale of Russian-American possessions to the United States in 1867, it was officially named Russian ...

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