If the 1700s American Fur Trade Had Turned Out Differently, Californians Would Be Speaking Russian Today

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History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today's guest is David Bainbridge, author of "Fur War 1765-1840," which focuses on the catastrophic - and previously overlooked - elements of the Western fur trade in North America. We discuss how the many First Nations fought to maintain their...

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1:05.7	History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories
1:10.5	throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History Unplugged
1:15.7	Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that
1:21.9	made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:31.6	If you happen to speak the French language and travel through the Midwest, your ears are offended
1:46.8	by how many French-origin towns are mispronounced in English language.
1:50.4	The reason there are so many French-named towns has to do a lot with French fur traders and fur
2:04.5	trappers who came to America in the 1760s. These weren't just frontiers men who came and went and
2:10.2	then were replaced by settlers. In fact, fur traders were part of an international competition in
2:15.8	the Midwest and the West Coast of the United States from the 1760s to the 1840s, among Russia,
2:20.9	Great Britain, America, France, and Spain. If things had gone just a little bit differently
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