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Title: The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917
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Publisher: Cincinnati : The R. Clarke company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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After the trafficof the occasion was over, and the plans for the ensuing yearwere agreed upon, the convoys returned to the States andthe trappers to their retreats in the mountains. The fieldof operations of this company was very extensive andincluded about all of the West not controlled by the Hud-sons Bay and American Fur Companies. Thus was the territory of the great West practicallyparceled out among these three companies. It must notbe supposed that there was any agreement, tacit or open,that each company should keep within certain limits.There were a few temporary arrangements of this sort, butfor the most part each company maintained the right towork in any territory it saw fit, and there was constantinvasion by each of the proper territories of the other. Butthe practical necessities of the business kept them, broadlyspeaking, within the limits which we have noted. Theroving bands of free trappers and lone traders/ andindividual expeditions like those of Captain Bonneville and
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Tetox Mountains and Jackson Lake. THE TRADER AND TRAPPER. 33 Nathaniel J. Wyeth, acknowledged allegiance to none ofthe great organizations, but wandered where they chose,dealing by turns with each of the companies. The vigor and enterprise of these traders caused theirbusiness to penetrate the remotest and most inaccessiblecorners of the land. Sillimans Journal for January, 1834,declares that— ^The mountains and forests, from the Arctic Sea to theGulf of Mexico, are threaded through every maze by thehunter. Every river and tributary stream, from theColumbia to the Eio del Xorte, and from the Mackenzie tothe Colorado of the West, from their headwaters to theirjunctions, are searched and trapped for beaver. That a business of such all-pervading character shouldhave left a region like our present Yellowstone Park unex-plored would seem extremely doubtful. That region lay, asort of neutral ground, between the territories of the rivalfur companies. Its streams abounded in beaver; and,alt

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