Trapping remains part of Idaho culture as the state approaches its 250th year of American history ...
Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston will host its February Confluence Learning Lab on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2-3 p.m. Focusing on the 19th-century fur trade, the free family-friendly ...
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 ...
When people picture a mink, they often jump straight to fur — big, elaborate coats like Cruella de Vil’s in Disney’s animated 101 Dalmatians. They’re not wrong: the fur trade helped shape early Oregon ...
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, ...
NMAI copy 39088019917533 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contains six papers originally presented at the 1981 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. These papers ...
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 ...
The Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston will host its February Confluence Learning Lab on ...