Editing Trading post (section)

==North American frontier==
{{Main|Native American trade}}

Trading houses were typically strategically located and stocked with goods that [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] and other trappers would trade furs for. These goods included clothing, blankets, axes, beads, corn, wheat flour, and liquor. Eric Jay Dolin's ''Fur, Fortune, and Empire'' provides a history of trading posts in North America. 

Plymouth colonists established Kennebec Trading House in 1628.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dolin|first=Eric Jay|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/449865266|title=Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America|date=2010|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|isbn=978-0-393-06710-1|location=New York|page=55|oclc=449865266}}</ref> This was followed by the Plymouth Penobscot trading post. Conflicts between French and Plymouth colonists occurred in 1631 when Frenchmen arrived at the Plymouth Penobscot trading post. The masters of the trading post and most of the crew were absent, leaving only a few servants (employees) to attend to the Frenchmen. When the Frenchmen learned this was the case, they feigned interest in guns available at the trading post, which when they got their hands on them, they turned back onto the servants. They obtained all valuables, leaving with £500 of goods and £300 in beaver pelts.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dolin|first=Eric Jay|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/449865266|title=Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America|date=2010|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|isbn=978-0-393-06710-1|location=New York|page=62|oclc=449865266}}</ref>

John Jacob Astor founded the [[American Fur Company]] (AFC). One of the great feats achieved by the AFC was the establishment of a trading post in the native Blackfoot tribe's territory, located in modern-day Montana along the Rocky Mountains. The Blackfoot tribe had killed many Euro-Americans and, up to this point, had only traded with the Hudson Bay Company. In order to erect a trading post in Blackfoot territory, the AFC needed a way to establish contact on their behalf. Jacob Berger, a trapper, offered Kenneth McKenzie to serve as this contact and get the AFC into negotiations with the Blackfoot. The talks were successful, and McKenzie was allowed to build a trading post in Blackfoot territory, adjacent to the Missouri and Marias Rivers, naming it Fort McKenzie.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dolin|first=Eric Jay|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/449865266|title=Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America|date=2010|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|isbn=978-0-393-06710-1|location=New York|page=272|oclc=449865266}}</ref>

The American post, Noochuloghoyet Trading Post, was established in the last 19th century in central Alaska adjacent to the Yukon River. This was an important trading post for the fur trade. It operated under different names, and its level of business activity varied greatly while it was in operation.<ref>Turck, Thomas J., and Diane L. Lehman Turck. "Trading Posts along the Yukon River: Noochuloghoyet Trading Post in Historical Context." ''Arctic'', vol. 45, no. 1, 1992, pp. 51–61. ''JSTOR'', {{JSTOR|40511192}}. Accessed 25 Mar. 2023.</ref>