horse-trade
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“A Rocky Mountain trade chain had carried horses to the Northwestern Plains by the 1730s. … The horse trade ignited a technological revolution that reconfigured several Indigenous worlds within a generation.”
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023
The researchers saw the robustness of the bones decline in the early 16th century, which would coincide with a decline in the British horse trade.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022
Some of the most heavily fished species are classified as threatened with extinction, but the sea horse trade, like everything else I’d seen in this market, is legal.
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018
The horse trade has its ups and downs – as I write this, it’s down, the worst in my lifetime.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2018
Gordon himself was too full of interest in the horse trade to remark anything.
From 'Doc.' Gordon by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
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