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Fur Trade Folks

List of names of folks who were in the Fur trade: http://roxen.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/names/names.html

African-Americans in the Fur Trade - http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/furtrade.htm

Camping With the Sioux
Here's a link to Alice Cunningham Fletcher's diary of her travels in 1881 to Dakota territory to live with Sioux women and record their way of life. She was an unmarried woman of 43 at the time, and an anthropologist and ethnologist at Harvard's Peabody Museum.

Slightly past 'voo time period, but still history, and a rippin' good story. - http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/

Tales of mountain men the their horses and mules, researched by artist Lee Teter: http://www.leeteter.com/researchTopics.asp?topic=20

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