Fur Trade in the Upper Mississippi River Valley
FAIN: GM-10789-76
State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, WI 53706-1417)
Joan E. Freeman (Project Director: November 1976 to present)
To install an exhibition on fur trade in the Astor Fur warehouse that was once part of the far flung empire of the American Fur Company. Exhibits will explore the history of fur trade from the early 1600's to 1848 when the last of the Indians' lands were added to the Americans