The underwool from the beaver pelts was used to make the beaver hat. The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven prime beaver pelts, a gun cost 14 ...

Beaten down by beaver traffic, he said ... a mink farmer in Nova Scotia. Many in the fur trade now readily acknowledge that activists who protested so loudly had a point: Farmers were not ...

T he fur trade, particularly the capture of beaver pelts, had a huge influence on the development of parts of the future United States and Canada. Hundreds of men made their way to the New World ...

Explore the fascinating people and places of Minnesota’s first global business in “Fur Trade in Minnesota,” a new traveling exhibit from the Minnesota History Center coming to Gammelgården Museum (208 ...