DCHP-1 Online
fur fort 
a trading post, so called because many early posts were fortified.
See also: fort
- 1904 Written by camp fire, or in cañon, or in the little log-house of a northern fur fort, when dogs and men rested for a day or two in the long icy run, that narrative will be found, I fear, to bear many indications of the rough scenes 'mid which it has been penned.
- 1938 [The Indians] hunted and trapped as their forefathers had done before them; bartering the pelts of beaver, lynx and silver fox at the fur forts from Labrador to the Pacific.
- 1904 Written by camp fire, or in cañon, or in the little log-house of a northern fur fort, when dogs and men rested for a day or two in the long icy run, that narrative will be found, I fear, to bear many indications of the rough scenes 'mid which it has been penned.