From February 8 to 23, the Firehall Arts Centre is presenting Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade: a sharp, satirical ...

In the fur trade, New Year’s Day, not Christmas, was the season’s more beloved holiday. Before Christmas and after New Year’s ...

On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

Oregon was established in 1859 as the 33rd state in the United States, but the Molalla Log House is thought to be much older.

Stretching from North Dakota in the west to Ohio in the east, America’s stunning Midwest is home to great lakes, mighty ...

As we kick off the year commemorating the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the United States Army, we’ll reflect on the rich legacy of ...

In 1758, Johann Rudolf Geigy-Gemuseus began trading in "materials ... into a joint-stock company and was renamed Gessellschaft fur Chemische Industrie Basel or "Ciba" for short.

Before the present day known settlements were built along the Yellowstone River, fur trading posts were built to accommodate trade between the American Fur Company and the Native Americans of ...

John Jacob Astor's employees experienced many adventures and opportunities in the wilderness of the great Northwest before Astor had to pull out of ...

Investors in Abbott Laboratories (Symbol: ABT) saw new options begin trading today, for the February 14th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the ...