We were tromping out onto a wetland frozen nine inches deep. It felt like how the fur trade began, someplace long ago, far away. Bill Mackowski, in his 60th year of trapping, mostly around ...

The Ph.D University of Wyoming professor isn’t certain of why, but her research has found that the semiaquatic mustelids — ...

For most reenactors, interest in the bygone era began at a young age ... “And I realized I’d been born too late.” The Western fur trade began after the Lewis and Clark expedition of ...

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Step back in time this Saturday 01/25/25, with Wyoming's Mountain Man Convention. The Platte Bridge Company will be at the ...