fur trappers
Wilderness pelt collectors
Fur trappers are people who catch wild animals for their pelts.
The term evokes a particular historical figure: the solitary frontiersman of 18th- and 19th-century North America who ranged into wilderness territories trapping beaver, muskrat, and other fur-bearing animals for the commercial fur trade.
The fur trappers who opened the American West often worked for trading companies like Hudson's Bay.
- mountain menPioneer wilderness fur trappers
- frontier lifeExistence at settlement's edge
- beaver peltsProcessed rodent hides
- beaver damRodent-built stream blockade
- voyageursHistoric fur-trade boatmen
canoe routes · trading posts · beavers · Hudson's Bay Company · Rocky Mountains · pelt · snares · snowshoes · cold weather · Métis · coureurs des bois · hide · skinning knife · rendezvous · otters · foxes · barter systems · muskrat
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Frontier Figurespioneers, settlers, homesteaders, explorers, trappers
- trappingtraps, snare, snares, trappers, traplines
- Arctic themespolar bears, northern lights, aurora borealis, igloos, midnight sun
- navigatorsnavigators, navigator, pathfinders, helmsman, wayfinders
- seekersseekers, seeker, treasure hunters, searcher, fortune seekers
fur trapperswildlife conservationists
Those protecting wild species
animal rights activists · park rangers · wildlife biologists · birdwatchers · nature photographers
fur trappershomesteaders
Land-claiming rural settlers
settlers · farmers · ranchers · missionaries · merchants