Cobblestone

4 min. di lettura

Long before the first European settlers arrived in North America, the Haudenosaunee formed their confederacy. Joining together allowed them to establish themselves as a dominant native force. In the early 1600s, French and Dutch traders established s

American History

1 min. di lettura

In Dreams, H.W. Brands seats the reader in canoes and prairie schooners among the stalwarts who explored and settled the American West. In powerfully evocative prose, the best-selling author of Traitor to His Class and The Age of Gold tells how Ameri

Who Do You Think You Are?

1 min. di lettura

The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) has launched a digital database that reveals the lives of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and indigenous heritage going back over 400 years. Switching the Lens (bit.ly/LMA-BAME) is the result of work by

Trapper & Predator Caller

4 min. di lettura

If you have followed this market report for a while, you are well aware of how tough the conditions have been in the fur world. After a spectacular year in 2013, with record prices for almost every species we trap, we began a descent caused in great

Trapper & Predator Caller

7 min. di lettura

We trappers today think we’ve got troubles with foul weather, wary critters and anti-trapping/hunting crowds. We see conservation and education as paramount to the future of our lifestyle, and when we aren’t hyper focused on the latest fur prices, we

Wild West

1 min. di lettura

Highly regarded California historian and author William Boyd Secrest, 89, a lifelong resident of Fresno who specialized in writing about the outlaws, lawmen and Indians of his home state, died on May 8, 2019. Born on March 14, 1930, Secrest served wi

Wild West

5 min. di lettura

On a spring trapping expedition in 1833 Kit Carson and five handpicked men were en route to the southwest corner of what would become Colorado when set upon by 200 Comanches. With no chance of escape, the trappers drew their knives, slit the throats

Trapper & Predator Caller

7 min. di lettura

Nowadays most fur trappers do all of their own pelting, and for good reason. There’s pride in processing your catch, not to mention a better looking check, too. But, along with careful knife work there are other steps that count just as much and need

History of War

2 min. di lettura

“TRIBAL HATREDS MADE COMMON ACTION AGAINST THE WHITES ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, EXCEPT IN CERTAIN INSTANCES OF ALLIANCES, LIKE THE POWERFUL SIOUX AND THE CHEYENNE” Author: Page Smith Publisher: Amberley Publishing Price: £20 Released: Out now Page Smith nee

Trapper & Predator Caller

3 min. di lettura

The reality of the depressed fur market is upon us. Many items in the fur trade have become unwelcome and maybe even unwanted. So what about farten? Well let’s face it — the pelt isn’t very valuable in the first place. I personally am concerned that

Trapper & Predator Caller

4 min. di lettura

It is extremely hard to believe what is happening worldwide right now, and just as hard to believe how our very own trade is paralyzed. We are now about to enter the trapping season of 2020 and the fur from 2019 is still, for the most part, unsold. S

Cobblestone

2 min. di lettura

The Dutch arrived in North America in 1609. Dutch trading companies sent explorers across the Atlantic Ocean. Those expeditions established fur-trading  outposts along the Hudson and Delaware rivers. The Dutch town of New Amsterdam on the island of p

Trapper & Predator Caller

7 min. di lettura

With recent changes to the fur market, especially the closing of one of the largest and oldest auction houses in North America (North American Fur Auctions), trappers and predator hunters are looking for the best way to market their fur for the top d

The Critic Magazine

11 min. di lettura

THERE ARE ARE CREDIBLE REPORTS that Carrie Symonds, Boris Johnson’s partner, and her friend Zac — now Lord — Goldsmith, his animal welfare minister, have been in cahoots to ban the retail fur trade, and seem to have gained the support of the prime mi

Wild West

3 min. di lettura

In 1900 Jim Gatchell opened a Buffalo, Wyo., drugstore naturally named the Buffalo Pharmacy. It quickly became the town’s social hub, drawing settlers, cowboys, cattle barons, Army scouts and lawmen. Gatchell was not only a respected businessman but

Wisconsin Magazine of History

11 min. di lettura

The following excerpt comes from The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior, which will be released in late spring by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Here the author introduces readers to the environment of Madeline Island, on which fu

Trapper & Predator Caller

3 min. di lettura

Basically the entire world of fur sales has stalled for the last three months because of COVID-19 pandemic. No big international fur auctions have been held yet in 2020, and the entire world is too busy fighting the pandemic and adjusting operations.

Los Angeles Times

4 min. di lettura

Whether they are densely populated or deeply rural, few communities in the United States have escaped a shocking run-up in suicides over the past two decades. From 1999 to 2016, suicide claimed the lives of 453,577 adults between the ages of 25 and 6

Trapper & Predator Caller

3 min. di lettura

A slight wind of optimism blows over the fur trade right now, maybe the first warm wind after a long cold winter that has seen prices decline steadily since the exceptional boom year of 2013. Every year since, prices have declined more and more. If t

Wild West

1 min. di lettura

Colonel George Washington Miller, a Kentucky-born Confederate veteran, founded the 101 Ranch in Indian Territory (present-day north central Oklahoma) in 1893. After his death in 1903, his sons Joseph, Zachary and George Jr. took over operation of the

Newsweek

1 min. di lettura

STATE | BANK | NO. OF BRANCHES ALABAMA Bryant Bank 16 ALASKA Mt. McKinley Bank 5 ARIZONA Commerce Bank of Arizona 4 ARKANSAS Bank of England 6 CALIFORNIA Mechanics Bank 146 COLORADO NBH Bank 48 CONNECTICUT Newtown Savings Bank 15 DELAWARE The Bank of

Apple Magazine

4 min. di lettura

As the coronavirus spread across the world and began its reach into the United States, an assortment of Americans from the president on down summoned one notion as they framed the emerging cataclysm. “The Chinese virus,” they called it — or, in a few

Literary Hub

5 min. di lettura

Please rip your mental map in half and turn it upside down—the one that sees Detroit in Michigan, Michigan in the Midwest, the Midwest as fly-over country in the United States of America. That is a modern map, developed long after Detroit was settled

Cobblestone

2 min. di lettura

$ 10 million for 29,670 square miles of land. That was the result of the Gadsden Purchase of 1854. It was the final sliver of land to be transferred from Mexico to the United States. Looking at a map, it’s not immediately obvious why the land had val

The Journal of the Texas Trophy Hunters

2 min. di lettura

The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 was an unnecessary fight and could have been avoided if the Mexican government had agreed to reasonable terms set forth by President James Polk after Texas joined the Union in 1845. Santa Anna had agreed to the R

Trapper & Predator Caller

3 min. di lettura

November is prime time for trapping, and by now everyone is out laying steel or checking traps! The crisp air, the early morning frost on the grass, the fresh smell of dirt and mud as we dig those dirtholes or pocket sets, all contribute to the overa

Futurity

1 min. di lettura

The United States made two promises—and it kept one but not the other. The tale can help us understand the existing wealth gap between African Americans and white Americans. One of those promises, that of “40 acres and a mule,” officially was made in

Sporting Rifle

2 min. di lettura

Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout, big game hunter, world-travelling adventurer and distinguished soldier. Burnham was born on a Sioux Indian reservation in Minnesota. At three months he luckily su

Guernica Magazine

3 min. di lettura

Reconsidering the origin stories and mythologies of Los Angeles, Texas, Arizona, the Alamo, and a family. The post New Series: Rewriting the West appeared first on Guernica.

Wild West

3 min. di lettura

Dating from 1858, the redbrick building at 914 Penn St. in St. Joseph, Missouri, is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places—and for good reason. It once housed horses at the starting point of the legendary Pony Express mail service. T