Many in the fur trade now readily acknowledge that activists ... Once the resolutely conventional winter-fashion choice of Park Avenue matrons and country club partygoers, fur has gone hip-hop ...

The winter winds howled across the Upper Great Lakes, the kind that cut to the bone and warned of hard times ahead. But inside her trading post, Madeline Laframboise stood firm. A Métis businesswoman, ...

The traders began to winter with the natives and eventually ... These men were the adventurers - travelling the fur trade routes themselves from Montreal - meeting with the wintering partners ...

They kept an eye out for Iroquois, who were trying to control the fur trade and didn't want the French ... place of massacre with horrid cries... By winter they had reached Lake Superior, farther ...