But alcoholism among his people in the late 1800s was an enemy he ... and provided huge profits for the fur traders. Within three years, the whiskey trade brought more destruction to the plains ...

Who are these guys? They’re American mountain men—reenactors of the fur trade that flourished in North America from roughly 1800 to 1840. Like the better known reenactors of the Civil War ...

The beaver hat remained fashionable for centuries but was eventually supplanted by the silk hat in the 1800's. By the 1860's, the beaver hat was no longer the height of fashion and the fur trade ...

These explorers, fur trappers, guides, and frontiersmen led the American expansion in the first years of the 1800s. The best became ... Also, the insatiable fur trade demand in Europe and the ...