Furs and Frontiers

Podcast: Furs and Frontiers Podcast

  • Mike Fink

    “King of the Keelboaters”, legendary brawler, master marksman. His short life’s story has it all!

  • The Battle of Pierre’s Hole – 1832

  • St. Louis, Missouri

    Photo credit: http://www.romeofthewest.com/2009/01/saint-louis-in-1817.html 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Fire_of_1849

  • Toughest Men in the Fur Trade

    Jedediah Smith, Thomas Fitzpatrick, John Colter, and Hugh Glass… Hear their stories and learn why they are considered by most to be the toughest mountain men of the North American Fur Trade.

  • Famous Women of the Fur Trade

    Photo Credit: https://lewis-clark.org/ hear the stories of the toughest women in the North American Fur Trade: Isobel Gunn, Magdalene La Framboise, Thanadelthur and Sacagawea and see what it takes to change the face of a nation.

  • John Jacob Astor & The American Fur Company

    A poor butcher’s son from Germany travels to New York City with $25 and a box of flutes and changes the face of the fur trade.

  • Kids of the Fur Trade

    Ever wonder what it was like to be a kid during this time period? We’ll look at what childhood was like from the East Coast to the Rocky Mountains. Photo credit: Adriaen van Ostade, 1673 Whirligig Instructions

  • Happy Halloween!

    Explore some of the ghost stories and spooky things that the mountain men and city folk would have been afraid of during the era of the Fur Trade.

  • Alexander MacKenzie

    The first white man north of Mexico to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast, this Northwest Fur Company explorer detailed every aspect of his voyages in his journals.

  • New Amsterdam

    Dutch colonists create the first major trading hub in North America and the fur trade helps create the first American millionaire. From 1,000 Dutch settlers to the most populated US city today, live the history of New York City and see how the fur trade changed New Amsterdam.