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fort hunter
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a hunter, usually an Indian, employed by a fur company to provide meat for a fort.
Quotations
1820
Our Fort Hunters have lived on Babiche and Leather for several days. . . .
1822
That all Servants employed as Fort Hunters, be allowed half the price that is given to Indians, and paid with goods out of the shop.
1921
But before the fort-hunter had returned with the telescope, the snowy veil suddenly thinned and revealed the gray figure of a tripper coming up the bank.