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unusual facts about fur trader



Campbell County, Wyoming

Campbell County was named either for John Allen Campbell, a governor of the Wyoming Territory or for Robert Campbell, an early trapper, who was a fur trader associated with William Henry Ashley.

Dease Lake, British Columbia

In 1837 a Hudson's Bay Company post, known as Lake House, was created by Robert Campbell on the shore of Dease Lake about 50 km North of the Stikine River and 150 km south of where the present day Alaska Highway passes.

George Durant

Durant was associated with Nathaniel Batts, a fur trader, and Richard Batts, a sea captain, and together with them explored the Albemarle Sound area of Virginia.

Idaho State Highway 75

In 1824, while searching the mountain wilderness of what is present day Idaho, known to them as Columbia District, for beaver, Alexander Ross came up the Wood River and discovered Galena Summit on September 18.

North West Company

Angus Shaw (proprietor), Donald MacTavish (proprietor), Alexander MacKay, Antoine Tourangeau, Joseph Cartier, Simon Réaume;

Thunder Butte

Literary references to Thunder Butte appear in the story of Hugh Glass, a mountain man/trapper with the 1823 party of William Henry Ashley and Andrew Henry, which was traveling overland from Fort Kiowa to Fort Henry at the mouth of the Yellowstone River.

Wishram, Washington

Visitors included Thomas Farnham, Hudson's Bay Company Governor Sir George Simpson, Alexander Ross, Father Pierre Desmet and Joseph Drayton's party of the Wilkes Expedition, among others.


see also

Alexander Henry

Alexander Henry the younger (died 1814), who was also a fur-trader, and the nephew of the above

Bible translations into Native American languages

The Dakota language Bible translation was started with Thomas Williamson and Joseph Renville, a fur trader of French and Dakotan descent.

Bonnycastle family

Richard H. G. Bonnycastle (1903-1968), lawyer, fur trader, adventurer, book publisher who owned Harlequin Enterprises

Charles K. Harris

His father was a fur trader and moved the family to Saginaw, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up.

Claiborne, Maryland

Its name can be traced back in honor of William Claiborne, a fur trader who founded an English settlement on nearby Kent Island in 1631.

Cook Inlet

Cook received maps of Alaska, the Aleutians, and Kamchatka during a visit with Russian fur trader Gerasim Izmailov in Unalaska, and combined these maps with those of his expedition to create the first Mercator projection of the North Pacific.

David Stuart

David Stuart (fur trader), fur trader with the North West Company and Pacific Fur Company, and one of the founders of Fort Astoria

Elliott Coues

New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry, Fur Trader of the Northwest Company and of David Thompson, Official Geographer and Explorer of the Same Company, 1799-1814 (1897);

Faribault County, Minnesota

It is named for Jean-Baptiste Faribault, a settler and French fur trader among the Sioux Indians.

Hoh River

The earliest documented encounter between Europeans and the Hoh people occurred in 1787 when the British fur trader Charles William Barkley, captain of the Imperial Eagle, dispatched a boat up the Hoh River to trade with the natives.

Joseph La France

Joseph La France, (c. 1707 – c. 1745), was a Metis fur trader in Canada, and an explorer of the inland route from Montreal to Hudson Bay.

Mackinaw River

It is believed that the Mackinaw River was named in the early 19th century in honor of an unnamed fur trader from Mackinac Island, Michigan who traded goods at or near the river.

Mondovì

Francis Vigo (1747–1836), fur trader, American Revolutionary War hero

Notman House

It stood on a substantial plot of land surrounded by fields with Elm and Maple trees, purchased from the subdivided estate of John Clarke (1781-1852), a retired fur-trader of the North West Company.

Oregon Route 99E

Starting in Oregon City, and continuing through the suburban communities of Gladstone, Oak Grove and Milwaukie, OR 99E is known as McLoughlin Boulevard (after fur trader John McLoughlin).

Pinedale, Wyoming

The town hosts the Green River Rendezvous, a reenactment of historic fur trader gatherings at the Upper Green River Rendezvous Site in nearby Daniel.

Richard Bonnycastle

Richard H. G. Bonnycastle (1903–1968), Canadian lawyer, fur trader, adventurer and businessman

Richard Duncan

Richard Duncan Fraser (c. 1784–1857), fur trader, businessman, farmer and political figure in Upper Canada

Richard Fraser

Richard Duncan Fraser (c. 1784–1857), Canadian fur trader and businessman

Rolette

Joe Rolette, fur trader, politician, Jean Joseph Rolette's son

Shelikhov

Grigory Shelikhov (1747-1795), also spelled "Shelikof", a Russian fur trader

Vieau

Jacques Vieau (1757–1852), French-Canadian fur trader and settler

William Ashley

William Henry Ashley (1778–1838), American fur trader, entrepreneur, and politician

William Juneau

Juneau was the grandnephew of Solomon Juneau (1793–1856), a fur trader, land speculator, and politician who helped found the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

William Perlberg

Before turning to film production in 1935, he first worked as fur trader for his father, since the late 1920s as an agent for William Morris, later as a talent agent and personal assistant to Harry Cohn.

William Whipple Warren

Her multi-racial ancestry was similar to his: she was the daughter of William Alexander Aitken, a European-American fur trader, and Gin-gion-cumig-oke, an Ojibwe woman.