DCHP-3

Yankee pedlar

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an American trader, especially on the Pacific Coast; the vessel of such a trader.

Quotations

1937
. . . the Company did not have a monopoly of the trade, as there are, in the Fort Langley Journal, 1827-1830, and other material, many complaints about the American vessels--the "Yankee Pedlars" as the Hudson's Bay Co.'s employees called them--selling goods to Indians at lower prices than those charged by the Company, and paying higher prices for furs.
1963
"Yankee" peddlers brought over the first scythes. . . .