St. Louis, Missouri

Furs and Frontiers Podcast

St. Louis, Missouri

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Thirty-two French fur trappers built a self-sustaining trading village to exploit the furs west of the great Mississippi River and inadvertently create the gateway to the settling the vast wilderness of the west.

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