McDonald, a Scotsman, was the last and longest-serving chief trader at Fort Colvile, serving from 1858 until the trading hub ...

There’s a reason historical fiction author Nikki Rajala titled her presentation at the Morrison County Historical Society ...

I see by the newspaper that some Russian River folk are planning a "Fur Ball," inviting people to haul out their grandmothers' fox furs and mink stoles for a celebration in support of the Guerneville ...

The wooden box outside the Department of Natural Resources office is piled high with frozen carcasses. They are red and lean and sinewy. In the January dusk, they look as if they could be furless ...

On a cold and sunny winter day on Dec. 30, six local residents gathered at a rural road near the Lancaster-Berks line and unloaded a wooden canoe, a faux fur and an old jug of the kind that once held ...

Trapping is an age-old enterprise. Who really knows when the first trapper came on the scene? Likely it was some dude who needed fur to keep him warm, but couldn’t get quite close enough to that saber ...

The fur industry has a long history in the state of Missouri. While it looks different these days, it’s still around, and trappers at the annual Missouri fur auction want to make sure they're ...