fur trader

noun

fur trader

noun

1

One who is engaged in the fur trade.

"Does the white chief come to the great council of the Yemassees as a fur trader? Would he have skins for his coat?" was the reply.1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Yemassee, A Romance of Carolina, page 94:
Ross was a former fur trader who retired to the Red River Settlement with his Okanagan wife and their children.1986, C. Roderick Wilson, R. Bruce Morrison, Native Peoples, The Canadian Experience, page 318:

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From its founding St. Louis was both a market and an outfitting point for fur traders and explorers of the American West.1993, Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, volume 23, page 82:

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