But alcoholism among his people in the late 1800s was an enemy he said he could not defeat. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada) At first, fur traders came to the Northwest Territory ...

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 ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white man before the mid-1800s. The Canadian west had already been mapped but there were only a handful of explorers, missionaries and fur traders on ...

Russian fur hunters and traders in Siberia had heard for centuries ... resources and natural features. Between 1800 and 1860, parties were sent along the coast and into the interior by the Russian ...

By the 1800s fur companies like John Jacob Astor ... turned the market hunt for animals into an industrial enterprise. Both the fur trade and the later bison robe/hide trade systematically ...

Although other missionaries may subsequently have passed the mouth of the river, it wasn't until the late 1700s that the area was frequented by fur traders. By the early 1800s, there were several ...

The Lowell Riddler returned with a special Halloween riddle that was solved in no time flat. Here’s the solution. ...

Casey Walker has found the headliners for his first feature film in over a decade! The Cinemaholic has learned that Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand, and Michael Pitt will star in the historical horror ...

Having a proactive statewide management plan, advocates said, can help educate the public about the importance of sustaining ...

Native to much of California, beavers were hunted to near extinction throughout North America by fur traders in the 1800s. Their numbers have rebounded in some areas, with populations in the Sierra ...

We had already finished the job on the East Coast with the sea mink, which became extinct in the 1800s because of overhunting for the fur trade. Sea otters are tough, but they take several years ...