The Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma, has unveiled a new exhibit featuring a replica of the Holland Coffee ...

The fur trade played a large role in shaping early North American economies and cultures. The North American fur trade was a key economic and cultural system linking Indigenous and European peoples, ...

The mountains -- The Shoshone: first people in the valley -- The "Hole" story -- Pierre Tevanitagon -- John Colter and Pierre's Hole: 1807-1808 -- Andrew Henry and the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company: ...

GREEN RIVER — In presentations throughout the day for over 100 students attending the Green River High School’s Wyoming History class, mountain men and the fur trade were the topics of a recent ...

Brandishing peltry on sticks -- They would offer us battle -- They attack like lions -- By virtue of His Majesty's commission -- A stranger to the commerce -- I now mixed up some vermilion in melted ...

The first European entrepreneurs in West Michigan weren’t Dutch. In the 17th Century, the Dutch and British were colonizing America’s east coast and the French were colonizing Canada. The Dutch traded ...

Travel back to when fur pelts were as coveted as gold nuggets during Fort Winnebago Surgeons Quarters’ Fall History Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 21 at 1824 E. Highway 33, Portage. Focusing on ...

FLINT, Mich. (WNEM) - From Fort Detroit to Flint, TV5′s Elisse Ramey shows us how an artist’s contemporary twist on history is shedding light on an industry not often talked about through illustrating ...

The Museum of the Fur Trade Board of Directors announces the retirement of museum director, Gail DeBuse Potter at the end of 2014. Gail DeBuse Potter became the director of the Museum of the Fur Trade ...

Shane links up with journalist Ben Goldfarb and suits up with beaver expert Skip Lisle to uncover how beavers reshaped the American landscape — and what we lost when they vanished. From centuries of ...

In this December 2009 photo, Doug Halsey demonstrates how firearms were used at Fort Vancouver. In the 1840s, firearms competitions were common during New Year’s celebrations. (The Columbian files) In ...