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    The American Fur Company (AFC) was a prominent American company that sold furs, skins, and buffalo robes. It was founded in 1808, by John Jacob Astor,...
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    Russian-American Company. Russian-American Company walrus skin banknotes The Russian-American Company and the Northwest Fur Trade: North American Scholarship...
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  • The enterprise that eventually came to be known as the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1822 by William Henry Ashley...
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    The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces...
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    The Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813. It was...
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  • Missouri Fur Company (also known as the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company or the Manuel Lisa Trading Company) was one of the earliest fur trading companies in...
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    Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in...
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    coastal, ship-based fur trade from the continental, land-based fur trade of, for example, the North West Company and the American Fur Company. Historically...
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  • Columbia Fur Company was a fur trading and Native American trading business active from 1821 to 1827, in Michigan Territory and in the unorganized territory...
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    John Jacob Astor (category American Fur Company people)
    established the American Fur Company on April 6, 1808. He later formed subsidiaries: the Pacific Fur Company, and the Southwest Fur Company (in which Canadians...
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