Sentence examples for beaver fur from inspiring English sources

One gentleman we met wore giant fur mittens made from wolf hide, the thumbs made from beaver fur.

By 1808, his American Fur Company had a monopoly on the American fur trade, his specialty beaver fur.

(There was also an alternative to the alternative, a blazer made wholly of beaver fur, which had the heavy feeling of sacrifice to it).

COLD For the freezing weather to come, Moncler has options: puffy jackets that aren't, in fact, puffy; items lined in beaver fur; a few styles of ski pants.

The Europeans desired furs, especially beaver fur, as the undercoat of a beaver pelt could be processed into a strong felt that was used in making hats.

By the middle of the seventeenth century, the trade in beaver fur had come to lie at the heart of the life of the Abenaki.

They quickly set up a trade in beaver furs with the Native Americans, who within a short time raided and destroyed the settlement after a disagreement between the two groups.

The factory is equipped with rare wooden, antique combing machines that date to the turn of the last century and are used to produce felt made from rabbit, hare and beaver furs.

Yankee traders brought beaver furs, Spanish silver coins, and the single largest shipment of ginseng that China had ever known; they sought such prized commodities as "woven wood" (silk) and "froth of the liquid jade" (tea) — a dietary staple for the early Americans.

Starting in 1792 the NWC had beaver furs shipped to China by American firms.

The Europeans (French, Dutch and English) in the Northeast developed a fur trade with natives, including the Five Nations of the Iroquois; beaver furs were most desired.