Adventure Online
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Conduct business with a seasoned trader from the American Fur Company in "Seeking a Fortune", a portion of the Minnesota Territory online exhibit. |
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Browse the Minnesota Historical Society's extensive Fur Trade collection. |
Investigate Further |
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Read Carolyn Gilman's The Grand Portage Story. |
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Read Carolyn Gilman's Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade. |
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Read The North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader edited by Anne Aby |
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Read Rhoda R. Gilman's, Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart |
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Kids can have fun while they learn with Chet Kozlak's, Great Lakes Fur Trade Coloring Book |
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Read Johann Georg Kohl's, Kitchi-Gami |
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Read George Nelson's, My First Years in the Fur Trade |
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Read Grace Lee Nute's, The Voyageur |
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Read John Sayer's Snake River Journal, 1804-1805: a Fur Trade Diary from East Central Minnesota edited and with introductory chapters by Douglas A. Birk. |
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Read The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America edited by Jacqueline Peterson & Jennifer S. H. Brown |
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Read The Bourgeois of the Northwest Company: Translation of the Introduction, Chapter Summaries, and Historical Sketch prepared by Diane H. Corbin |
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Read Marjorie Wilkins Campbell's, The North West Company |
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Use the Visual Resource Database to search and view some of the Society's 250,000 images. |
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Search PALS, the MHS online card catalog, to find books, archives, manuscripts, maps, and some of the Society's vast object collections. |
Go There
Leave your computer and visit the real thing.
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Take a trip to the North West Company Fur Post, near Pine City. |
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Meet George Nelson, a clerk during the fur trade. You can ask him about the fur business as he roams the galleries of the History Center. Or invite him to your school. |