CHAPTER 9: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, …

The free trapper did pay a high price for his freedom as he was at the whim of market fluctuations and he was sometimes still at the mercy of a company to give him credit at the end of a bad year. All told, the typical trapper, though he might have a good season, or a good year, never got out of debt. ................
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