About this episode

The episode covers the West Virginia Fur Auction, exploring its history and modern practices through interviews with various participants.

The West Virginia Fur Auction is an annual fur, root, skull & antler consignment sale in Glenville, West Virginia. After a reading about the first fur-trade explorations over the Alleghenies into West Virginia in 1671-74, we head into the auction with in-the-field reporting on the modern fur, root, meat, gland and oddities markets, interviewing the likes of trappers, fur hangers, graders, buyers and members of the West Virginia Trappers Association. Many grew up trapping and we hear how m...

People in this episode

Host: Philippe G. Willis

Topics covered

• fur auction
• trapping
• West Virginia
• fur trade
• wildlife markets
• interviews

Keywords

• fur auction
• trappers
• West Virginia
• wildlife
• meat market
• gland market
• oddities

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: West Virginia Trappers Association

Places: West Virginia

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