The Dunn County Historical Society is presenting its annual Fur Trade Rendezvous. Scheduled from August 16-17, 2008, the rendezvous offers a view into the early settlement of Dunn County and Northwest Wisconsin. Re-enactors set up a typical trading camp allowing visitors to experience everyday life during the fur trade era. Visitors can learn to throw a tomahawk, shoot a longbow and arrows, and fire black powder guns. Blacksmithing demonstrations and a candy cannon for kids have also been added. Rendezvous is an entertaining event for the entire family.

Menomonie traces its roots back to a fur trade post established by Jean Baptiste Perrault in 1787-88. Perrault wintered over with his partner Thomas Richardson, three white employees and several Indians. Perrault's journal records that they were "comfortably lodged," and "we saw the Indians often with furs. The land was rich at that time."

The rendezvous is held on the grounds of the Russell J. Rassbach Heritage Museum in Menomonie's Wakanda Park. Admission is free to both the event and the museum during the weekend.