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 CHAPTER XV SOME TALES OF TRAVELERS

the completion of the trade and intercourse treaties there was a very great increase in the American fur trade, and it continued to grow and expand until the



fur-bearing animals and buffalo were practically exterminated. The mouth of the Teton River was at the very center of the great fur country, and it was there, as we have seen, that the little post of Joseph La Framboise was built in 1817. Five years later this post was succeeded by 88