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Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the guns, ammunition, tobacco, blankets, etc. that the fur traders carried in stock to exchange for furs.
Quotations
1777
We are much concerned to Discover that so many of Our Trading Goods are given away & applied under the Article of Expences especially as they rise so high in Proportion to the Returns in Made Beaver from each Factory.
1913
I was ordered to go out to meet him with a fresh supply of trading goods. . . .
1954
In addition to trading goods to be taken up and furs to be brought down, food for the whole distance had to be carried.