Before Alaska became an American state, Russia invaded and subjugated its people for fur trading Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent America’s largest state—encompassing mountains, coasts ...
The immediate result was logical and inevitable. America’s needle had been pointing westward ever since the first Pilgrim Father scrambled ashore at Plymouth Rock: now, with the expansionist Jefferson ...
In the first half of the 1800s, logging replaced the fur trade as ... British North American wood was used to build ships in Quebec City and other colonial ports in the 1800s. . (As portrayed ...
During the early days of North American colonialism, Indiana was part of New France. The area's rich fur trading, proximity to the Great Lakes and river highways made it an important part of France's ...