DCHP-3

fur fort

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trading post, so called because many early posts were fortified.

See: fort

Quotations

1904
Written by camp fire, or in cañon, or in the little log-house of a northern fur fort, when dogs and men rested for a day or two in the long icy run, that narrative will be found, I fear, to bear many indications of the rough scenes 'mid which it has been penned.
1938
[The Indians] hunted and trapped as their forefathers had done before them; bartering the pelts of beaver, lynx and silver fox at the fur forts from Labrador to the Pacific.