Animal Fur In The 1800's

The goat was the first ruminant to be domesticated. A ruminant is an animal that has more than one compartment in the stomach. Goats began arriving in Plymouth in 1623. In A History of Domesticated Animals, goats were a good source for milk, meat, hides, and some

Aboriginal women had occupied an essential position in the fur trade of the North American region from its birth during the 17th and 18th centuries. Even though this is true, the role of women, especially those of the Native American society, has been ignored a great deal in the entire history of fur trade. Contrary to the belief that the whole fur trade activity was only male-dominated, it very much depended upon Native women and their participation and labor in order to ensure survival as well as economic success. This paper will attempt to illuminate how Native women played the role as important producers when it comes to fur trade of the American Plains and, of course, the Canadian region. This paper will also deal with the two

Fur trade between the French and Indians began with the exchange of small items the Indians didn’t have, though it became an important trade source for all of Europe, especially by Samuel de Champlain

Do you really know what is in your meat? What about what happens to the meat after it is slaughtered? Fortunately, the conditions have gotten much better throughout the years. But many years ago, in the early 1900s meat consumers bought spoiled and rat infested hams that were produced by the meat industries. Nowadays, the meat industry has improved to a certain extent. Today, about 80% of all U.S. feedlots are injected with hormones (Lerner). Americans should know what they are eating. This is important in the meat industry because they are the producers of all the meat that we eat. The meat industry has improved and is much better than the 1900s, but still not at as ideal as everyone thinks it really is.

Images of rough faced, Grizzly Bear fighting, firewater drinking, yarn spinning, frontiersmen form in the minds eye. Wild men for wild times! To a degree this image is true, but the fur trade was more than wild men. The fur trade was a business, conducted by businessmen. The wilder men living on the frontier chose trapping. Fashion created the fur trade as businessmen sought to satisfy the tastes of designers and customers back east and in Europe, where furs and hides were necessities for fashionable clothing and accessories. Fashions also affected the Indians who sought, silver, vermillion, glass beads, and clothe from traders. Each group depended on the other to supply the resources.

Born in St. Louis in 1809, one of four sons of a Missouri Supreme Court Justice, William Bent followed his older brother, Charles, into the fur-trading business. William was trapping along the upper Arkansas river by age fifteen, and in 1829 he helped his brother take a wagon train of trade goods down the Santa Fe Trail.

Charles W. Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 16, 1817.] His parents were Benjamin and Susannah Goodhue Adams. Benjamin was related to President of the United States John Adams.In 1819, the Adams family moved to New Albany, Indiana, where Charles was a clerk in a mercantile house between 1830 and 1835. Adams moved to Helena, Arkansas in 1835 and became a cashier in a mercantile house. In 1837, he became cashier of the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas. After studying law at night, he became a lawyer in 1839. In the early 1840s, Adams slaveholder.entered into a law partnership with William K. Sebastian, who became a United States Senator in 1848.Adams was a judge from 1852 to 1854.He also became a large cotton planter and

Coureurs de bois: French fur-trappers who ranged over the woods and waterways of North America in pursuit of

Inventing the trade of furs among the British and the French, the Native Americans initiated the Fur Trade. English fishermen and the French were the first to trade for furs from the Native Americans. In exchange, Native American recieved European-manufactured goods. This trade became so profitable, that fishermen would abandon fishing to go to North America just to trade furs. Allied with the Iroquois, the British were thought to have an advantage with the Native Americans.

In the beginnings of Colorado, Native Americans introduced buffalo robes/ pelts to trade, in time this lead to the over-hunting and near extinction of the animals. Buffalo was the Native Americans' primary source of food and survival necessities. They used bison pelts to make clothing, beds, and shelter. They even used the hooves to make a type of glue to form weapons for themselves (Mills). Once Anglos came to Colorado and found that they would need warm, thick material to make coats for the harsh winters, buffalo pelts boomed as an essential and well sought after trading item. The Indians also needed (and wanted) things that the Anglos had such as modern cooking equipment, guns, tobacco, and whiskey (Mills). They believed that they were getting all the essential modern tools that would make them as well off as

Jim and Henry Fraeb built a trading post in 1843 it was called Fort Bridger in Wyoming along the Green River. Jim Bridger was a the best path finder in American history and he had a great opportunity when Captain Howard Stanbury came in to Fort Bridger and asked about a short cut across the Rockies other than the South Pass so Jim guided him through a trail that was along the south of the Great Basin. After that trip it was named Bridger’s Pass which would be used for mail, the railroad, and now it is called Interstate

living in a region rich with lakes ad waterways, the Dogrib was of life depended on the canoe, especially in their seasonal round of hunting caribou and musk. hunting of caribou could be accomplished several different ways, depending on the season. During the spring, snares and large drift fences were made to trap the caribou as they traeled through the woods, When the caribous were trapped, the Dogrib used spears and bows and arrows to kill the animals.

Meriwether Lewis was born August 18th, 1774 near Charlottesville, Virginia. William Clark was born August 1st, 1770 in Virginia as well. Some people believe that the boys may have played together as children, but this is only a myth. When their lives did join, their names became inseparable as partners of discovery.

I am a trader and and trapper which you might know me from Bent's fort the fort i made it has been used for things like the army used it and I used it for trading and other thing like that and i also have Brother named charles bent and i had a wife who was owl women we had four kids as a teenager i moved out of saint louis. my brother was a fur trapper beaver pelts and other famus stuff back in the west . and also hats. .

George Washington's life began with his birth in 1732, to Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington, British immigrants who were living in the newly founded American colony of Virginia. He had a total of nine siblings, including a pair of older half-brothers, and the large Washington family worked their way up from the gentry class of common farmers to become wealthy landowners. Working as a farmer at first,