The Grand Museum of the Fur Trade Is Nebraska’s ‘Jewel on Bordeaux Creek’

Its trove of artifacts celebrates a hair-raising era. Call it the early Wild West, a time of hair-raising and sometimes fur-flying adventure when men were men and beavers were beavers. By the beginning of the 18th century, French, Dutch and English traders were pushing into the North American interior in search of the beaver, whose …

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