Sentences with phrase «century by fur»
The area was originally settled in the early 19th century by fur traders and was established as a city in 1865.
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The animals, which feed in the lush kelp beds offshore, were hunted almost to extinction by fur traders in the 19th century.
It's home to most of St. Paul's 500 residents, the majority of them Aleuts whose ancestors were brought here by Russian traders more than two centuries ago to work the northern fur seal killing fields.
Evidence from archaeological digs suggests that aboriginal Aleuts were wiping out local otter populations as much as 2,500 years ago, and European fur traders all but finished the job by the end of the 19th century.
A 19th - century fur trapper by the name of Hugh Glass, is set out on a path of vengeance after he gets brutally mauled by a grizzly bear and is left for dead by his companions.
The film is a period piece revenge thriller adapted by Iñárritu from Michael Punke's 2003 novel based on the true story of 19th century fur trapper Hugh Glass.
Sea otters, once bountiful along the California coast, were virtually wiped out by fur traders in the 18th and 19th centuries.
They have longer flippers than sea lions, along with a rich luxuriant coat of fur that was so prized by hunters that it brought them to the brink of extinction in the 19th century.
Guadalupe Island was a major destination for Russian and American fur hunters seeking the Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi) in the 18th and 19th centuries, until they were nearly extinct by 1844.
Ernest, in return, cheated on her relentlessly, fell into jealous fits over things like fur coats she'd would buy for herself, and left her for the Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning, whom he met while preparing the Exhibition by 31 Women show for Art of This Century.
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