European demand for fur pelts and wheat helped shape early American agriculture. Learn how global markets drove farming expansion in the ...

BOONE, Iowa— Vendors from all over the Midwest gathered at the Boone County fairgrounds for the 33rd Historic Trade Fair.

The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. The fur trade influenced ...

By the 1840s, beaver fur hats had fallen out of fashion — silk was the most popular material. The American Fur Company, which had its headquarters in Mendota, dissolved in 1847, according to a ...