Beginnings of the fur-trade
English, Dutch and French rivalry
Explorations of Radisson and Groseilliers
Marquette and Joliet-early waterways and portages
Adventures of LaSalle in Canada and the West
LaSalle on the Mississippi
Beginning of the Hudson's Bay Company
Count Verendrye and the discovery of the Rockies
English supremacy - Hearne's explorations
The Northwest Fur Company
The first crossing ot the Continent
Trade and exploration on the Pacific Coast
American Independence - Trans-Mississippi explorations
Explorations in the Southwest
John Jacob Astor and the fur-trade
Return of the Astorians - The American Fur Company
British and American traders in Oregon and the Rockies
Union of the Northwest and Hudson's Bay companies
Jedediah Smith's California expeditions
Travels of Bonneville and Walker
Wyeth;s enterprise - A fur-trader rendezvous
Free traders and trappers
Some famous free trappers
French voyageurs or Coureurs de Bois
