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NORTH AMERICAN FUR COMPANY

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Dubuque Democratic Herald, January 8, 1864

NORTH AMERICAN FUR COMPANY. The only mention of a fur company by this name operating with trappers is found in an article printed by The Daily Herald in 1876. (1) Other accounts of this company in Dubuque involve agents coming to town to purchase hides during the 1860s.

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"Early Local History," The Daily Herald, September 15, 1876, p. 4