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Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a trading trip for furs; trade carried on at an Indian camp away from the post.
Quotations
1820
McDougald who is a good trader and understands the language will be usefully occupied in tripping after the N.W. Indians. . . .
1934
Not only were dog-teams kept for tripping to the Indian camps for furs but others were employed in carrying the mail. . . .
1962
Trading groups . . . existed during "the Old Days," in relation to the Euro-American practice of "tripping for fur." Post managers would send men and trade goods into areas where it was known or supposed that there were concentrations of natives.
2n.
the activity or business of transporting goods, furs, etc. from one place to another.
See: voyaging ((n.))(def. 2)
Quotations
1832
. . . in the Course of Summer three Trips is made from the Factory with 80 pieces p. Boat, the Boats are larger than usual for this Tripping Business.
1861
Some of them had been employed in . . . road-making, house-building, tripping and the like. . . .
1907
The laborers . . . about the post got nothing in the way of imported provisions except when at the hard work of tripping.
1963
All travel about the fort, called "tripping," was now done with dogs.