peltry

The sheriff for serving a writ or a warrant shall receive three livers in peltry; for levying an execution, 5 per cent, including the fees of the clerk of the court.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess

At the request of Iberville, the new governor of Louisiana, the government now permitted Illinois traders to sell their peltry in Louisiana, to prevent them from earning it over the mountains to the English.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

The Spanish refused to allow the Americans to navigate the Mississippi, Virginia money entirely lost its credit, hard money was scarce, and peltry was difficult for the military commissaries to obtain.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess

Well on into the nineteenth century fur traders were still sending in supplies from Montreal and bringing back peltry from Fort William in flotillas of great bark canoes.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar Douglas Skelton

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 Samuel de Champlain

These were of two classes, those who merely traded with the Indians for peltries, and those who attached themselves to native tribes.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

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

Presently he came out of the scrub oaks leading his horse, followed immediately by a boy on foot; but where was the horseback load of peltries that Uncle Ezra so confidently expected?

From Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget by Harry Castlemon

These traders, including the peltries received at the United States Factory, near Fort Edwards, collected of the Sauk and Fox Indians during this season, nine hundred and eighty packs.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell