Like gold dust on the mining frontier, beaver pelts acted as the medium of exchange in the mountains. Unique to the Amer…
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The Life of a Fur Trapper
There was no shortage of ways to go to the “go under” in the Far West during the heyday of the Mountain Men. In 1856 Ant…
The Rendezvous
Like gold dust in the mining camps, beaver fur was the medium of exchange in the mountains. In 1825 William Ashley came …