Why did the fur trading business lose its ecnomic importance and impact on the pacific northwest after 1850?

Question

Why did the fur trading business lose its ecnomic importance and impact on the pacific northwest after 1850?

Answer 1

I think that is when the gold rush took its place as an income source. Why run through the woods looking for animals to kill when all you need is a shovel to dig up gold?

Answer 2

What you overlook is that it is not just Whites who want to separate away from the main country. In the Southwest the Mexican immigrants have long been talking of secession and creating their own Hispanic nation "Aztlan." There has also been talk of a black "Nation within a nation" by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) so this is nothing new. And in any case in the same way that the Soviet Union broke apart some years ago, because it was an empire, not a single Nation, America has also become a multi-racial empire of different nations all forced-living together. Tensions are rising so it will also break apart, because all empires eventually break up....

Answer 3

either they hunted the furry animals into extinction, or found better ways of making money (like gold).