It felt like how the fur trade began, someplace long ago ... “Feel how hard the bottom is on the run?” Beaten down by beaver traffic, he said. Breaking through the ice in another spot ...

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 ...

Why they’re an Oregon symbol: The beaver became the state’s animal ... incentive for early exploration and it dominated the fur trade era in this part of the Northwest.” ...

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 ...