Furs and Frontiers Podcast

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.