Maritime fur trade
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The maritime fur trade, a ship-based fur trade system, focused largely on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and Alaska Natives.
The settlement of Grigory Shelikhov on Kodiak Island
Captain James Cook
The launch of the North-West America at Nootka Sound, 1788
Old Sitka
Robert Gray (sea captain)
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Robert Gray was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1787 and 1793, which p
Captain Gray (Not showing his lack of one eye)
Medal made for Gray and Kendrick to take on the voyage
A royal Hawaiian Mahiole, or feathered helmet, collected by Gray in 1789
Martha Gray's petition to Congress