DANBURY– Morning arrives with the smell of bacon and eggs cooking over an open campfire, the flames popping as they consume oak logs. More campfires, and more smells … venison steaks, fried bread, ...

The fur trade played a large role in shaping early North American economies and cultures. The North American fur trade was a key economic and cultural system linking Indigenous and European peoples, ...

By the 1840s, beaver fur hats had fallen out of fashion — silk was the most popular material. The American Fur Company, which had its headquarters in Mendota, dissolved in 1847, according to a ...

Of the mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or rather "Of stinking waters" / Father Allouez -- On the hunting of the Gaspesians / Father Chrestien LeClercq -- The hunting of ...

I see by the newspaper that some Russian River folk are planning a "Fur Ball," inviting people to haul out their grandmothers' fox furs and mink stoles for a celebration in support of the Guerneville ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping ...

What became North Dakota and South Dakota in 1776 were occupied by American Indian tribes, many of whom hunted buffalo and were just beginning to barter with French and British fur traders. The ...

It was 1980 — 45 years ago — when Fur Trade Days was four years old that the Colter Run became a part of Chadron’s annual celebration. While it takes some previous training and lots of gumption and ...