The American Fur Company (AFC) was founded in 1808, by John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant to the United States. During the 18th century, furs had become... 23 KB (2,939 words) - 23:44, 9 April 2024 |
The enterprise that eventually came to be known as the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1822 by William Henry Ashley... 10 KB (1,395 words) - 22:49, 20 February 2024 |
The Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813. It was... 64 KB (8,416 words) - 18:03, 2 December 2023 |
coastal, ship-based fur trade from the continental, land-based fur trade of, for example, the North West Company and the American Fur Company. Historically... 58 KB (7,674 words) - 14:29, 2 May 2024 |
Missouri Fur Company (also known as the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company or the Manuel Lisa Trading Company) was one of the earliest fur trading companies in... 22 KB (2,743 words) - 04:28, 13 February 2024 |
Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in... 39 KB (4,927 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024 |
example, the North West Company (1779–1821) of Montreal and the American Fur Company (1808–1847). Historically, the maritime fur trade was not known by... 148 KB (17,483 words) - 04:54, 17 April 2024 |
John Jacob Astor (category American Fur Company people) established the American Fur Company on April 6, 1808. He later formed subsidiaries: the Pacific Fur Company, and the Southwest Fur Company (in which Canadians... 27 KB (3,051 words) - 21:34, 6 April 2024 |
the American Fur Company. The company was founded in 1821, when the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company merged, and a large number of fur traders... 6 KB (595 words) - 07:51, 30 December 2021 |
Mountain man (category American hunters) American monopoly by 1830, Astor got out of the fur business before its decline. By 1841, the American Fur Company and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company... 27 KB (3,434 words) - 11:46, 21 April 2024 |
Fort Kiowa (category American Fur Company) the Missouri. Built in 1822 by the Columbia Fur Company to serve the expanding fur trade in the American West, the square 140-by-140-foot (43 by 43 m)... 8 KB (1,113 words) - 04:46, 16 September 2023 |
Madeline Island (section Fur trade and early industry) territories after the War of 1812, the fur trade on the island came under the control of the American Fur Company, founded by John Jacob Astor in 1808.... 23 KB (2,353 words) - 15:44, 2 April 2024 |
Oregon Country (category History of the American West) Jacob Astor commissioned and began the construction of the American Pacific Fur Company fur-trading post at Fort Astoria, just 5 miles (8 kilometers) from... 34 KB (4,013 words) - 08:46, 20 April 2024 |
Bloody Knife (category Native American United States military personnel) 1862. Bloody Knife found employment as a courier and hunter for the American Fur Company and later served under Alfred Sully before scouting for George Custer... 22 KB (2,724 words) - 09:56, 19 September 2023 |
William Backhouse Astor Sr. (category American Fur Company people) the American Fur Company, in its last several years of its ownership by Astor & Son. Although William's fortunes grew with his father's company, he became... 20 KB (2,163 words) - 08:36, 15 February 2024 |
Oregon Trail (category Trails and roads in the American Old West) of his American Fur Company (AFC) in 1810, the Pacific Fur Company (PFC) operated in the Pacific Northwest in the ongoing North American fur trade. Two... 143 KB (19,100 words) - 00:12, 24 April 2024 |
Fort Astoria (category American Fur Company) Astoria (also named Fort George) was the primary fur trading post of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company (PFC). A maritime contingent of PFC staff was... 33 KB (3,922 words) - 00:05, 30 December 2023 |
Fort Laramie National Historic Site (category American Fur Company) a local fur trader. After a rendezvous in 1836, it was sold to the American Fur Company, which still had a virtual monopoly on the western fur trade. Starting... 25 KB (3,007 words) - 00:28, 26 April 2024 |
William Sublette (category American fur traders) was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along... 7 KB (681 words) - 00:47, 5 April 2023 |
Joseph Robidoux IV (category American Fur Company people) Joseph Robidoux IV (1783–1868), was an American fur trader credited as the founder of St. Joseph, Missouri, which developed around his Blacksnake Hills... 11 KB (1,552 words) - 07:07, 5 September 2023 |
Henry Hastings Sibley (category American Fur Company people) Hastings Sibley (February 20, 1811 – February 18, 1891) was a fur trader with the American Fur Company, the first U.S. Congressional representative for Minnesota... 92 KB (11,557 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024 |