fur trader
Sells animal skins
A fur trader is a person who buys and sells animal pelts, historically as part of the commercial exchange between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in North America.
The fur trade shaped early colonial economies and expansion: French fur traders established posts along the Great Lakes.
The term evokes a specific historical period spanning roughly the 17th through 19th centuries.
- beaverDam-constructing aquatic rodent
- beaver peltRodent's tanned hide
- peltFur-bearing animal skin
- animal skinsOuter coverings from beasts
- Hudson BayLarge Canadian subarctic sea
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- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Old Jobsblacksmith, farrier, wheelwright, chandler, apothecary
- tradersmerchant, retailer, vendor, dealer, wholesaler
- Frontiersmenmountain man, frontiersman, backwoodsman, trapper, woodsman
- fur tradebeaver pelts, pelts, mink, sable, fox
- fur traderstrapper, voyageur, mountain man, pelter, factor
fur traderwildlife conservationist
One safeguarding wild species
wildlife rehabilitator · game warden · wildlife ranger · animal rescuer · vegan activist
fur traderhomesteader
One who settles wilderness land
farmer · settler · townsman · shopkeeper · factory worker
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