Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Donlin is published by WW Norton & Co (£22.99). More about Animals French Politics Hunting Native Americans.

The fur trade has no doubt warned No 10 that a fur import ban would be bad for business and impose unnecessary red tape. I’m very familiar with that line.

Whiskey fueled Canada’s fur trade but left deep scars along the way. This video explores how alcohol became both a tool of ...

White trade merchants, too, began to suffer from the demise of the fur trade. Fortunes had been sunk into buying trade goods intended to be sold to Dakota hunters who could no longer afford to buy ...

People in the fur trade like to dwell on the implied hypocrisy. “I just read that Americans consumed 1.3 billion chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday,” said Zilberkweit, the fur retailer.

The North American fur trade began around 1500 off the coast of Newfoundland and became one of the most powerful industries in US history. In Minnesota country, the Dakota and the Ojibwe traded in ...

This protects the trapper from low-balling buyers, but the trade-off is that if the fur doesn’t sell, the trapper doesn’t get paid. At least not until the next quarterly sale. Fur Value. In 2014, ...

“Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America” (W.W. Norton & Co., $29.95), by Eric Jay Dolin. Beavers are big rodents – some over 39 inches long – with floppy ...

Fur Free Britain 'Fur trade isn't just a danger to animals – it could cause next horror pandemic' Labour MP Ruth Jones, a supporter of the Mirror's Fur Free Britain campaign, ...

The U.S. fur trade — which peaked in the 1970s and 1980s — has plummeted because of the animal rights movement and advances in fabric technology that led to a switch from natural furs.