peltry
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These boats would then set out on their homeward journey laden with peltry gathered from far and near.
From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Wood, Louis Aubrey
I'd as lief be descended from a canvased ham as an Astor peltry or a Vanderbilt steamboat.
From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith
Crow and Blackfoot and Sioux Indians often raided the brigades when on the home trip loaded with peltry.
From Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
Nathan was all agog at the peltry that hung from innumerable pegs on the rough log walls.
From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Robinson, Rowland E.
Joseph St. Marie, of Vincennes, sent his clerk with a load of peltry to be traded to the Indians on the banks of the Mississippi.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Boggess, Arthur Clinton
In order to procure guns and ammunition from their English friends they were compelled to take thought for the decreasing peltries.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
Met a train coming from Robadeau's trading post, with five wagon loads of buffalo skins and other peltries.
From Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
He's reliable enough to go to the mountains every fall and come back every spring with a hoss-back load of peltries, and that's all he is reliable for.
From Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget by Castlemon, Harry
The fur company continued to drive a fair trade in peltries, but the prosperity of the city itself was woefully retarded by the constant menace of the Iroquois.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
As to leaving with arms and baggage,—the officers might take with them their arms, clothes, and peltries belonging to them, and the soldiers their clothes and a beaver robe each.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Champlain, Samuel de
