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LAND of the EAGLE (PBS VIDEO on What North America looked like at European contact and Native American lifeways) Episode II – Confronting the Wilderness (the northwoods). Europeans Traded for Pelts, especially beaver (beginning 1600s). The Beaver Market Shapes Politics.
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LAND of the EAGLE (PBS VIDEO on What North America looked like at European contact and Native American lifeways) Episode II – Confronting the Wilderness (the northwoods)
Europeans Traded for Pelts, especially beaver (beginning 1600s)
Europeans Commercially Fished (beginning ~1800)
The Earliest Miners – Native Americans (Copper: 6000 – 3200 years ago)
Europeans First Mined Copper and Later Iron (starts in 1840s)
Europeans Logged (beginning in 1860s)
The Loggers
The Logging Legend (Paul Bunyan and Babe)
The Aftermath (Devastation, Fire and Chicago)