fur trade

Conservation groups say the federal government is overlooking the environmental ramifications of trapping furbearing animals for export. They’re suing to…

It's 1848 and you're heading 2,200 miles up the Missouri River, spending two months literally pulling the keel boat upstream. When you arrive at the…

In 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast of North America. More than half of his men died…