Quick Take Oregon officially named the American beaver as its state mammal in 1969 after long informal symbolism. ...

More than 180 years ago, at the peak of the beaver fur trade in the West, groups of 100 men and several hundred horses would make annual circuits through Central Oregon, trading with American Indians ...

Follow the story of how beavers have earned their role as New York's state mammal by contributing to the economy and ...

Beaver fur was a symbol of wealth and an important trade item in 10th Century Denmark, according to a study published July 27, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Luise Ørsted Brandt of the ...

In the winter of 1783, officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company, a powerful British trade organization, crossed the Atlantic on the American ship Carolina. As they talked together on the upper deck, a ...

LANCASTER — On a cold and sunny winter day on Dec. 30, six local residents gathered at a rural road near the Lancaster-Berks line and unloaded a wooden canoe, a faux fur and an old jug of the kind ...

The 1830s were fraught times for hatters everywhere. Fashionable men clung to the beaver hat for centuries, but in the early 1800s that fashion was threatened by over-hunting the chubby rodents.

If you wanted to flaunt your wealth today, you might carry a Gucci bag and strut around in a pair of Louboutins, or simply opt for finer clothing made of cashmere and silk. But if you were a rich ...

Beaver fur was a symbol of wealth and an important trade item in 10th Century Denmark, according to a new study. Beaver fur was a symbol of wealth and an important trade item in 10th Century Denmark, ...