Dedicated to the memory of the traders and trappers who explored a continent, and to the Indians with whom they traded, played, and fought.

TELLING THE STORY OF AMERICA'S MOST ROMANTIC BUSINESS

The fur trade is the first great romance of America.  Before the thundering cattle drives and raucous saloons of the “Wild West,” before the first creaking Conestoga wagon inched westward on the Oregon Trail, even before the stern Pilgrims stepped from their fragile ships onto Plymouth Rock, the continent was abuzz with business—the business of furs.

The James Bordeaux Trading Post—

spring, summer, fall, and winter