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Title: The fur traders of the Columbia river and the Rocky mountains
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 Olmsted, Frank Lincoln, ed
Subjects: Fur trade Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rest among the voyagetirs,a horse for every two, so that they could ride andwalk alternately. They were now out of the tract of country infestedby the Sioux, and had advanced such a distance intothe interior that Mr. Hunt no longer feared the deser-tion of any of his men. He was privately informed,however, that Kdward Rose, the interpreter, was tam-pering with the fidelity of certain of the men. Hisplan was to induce several of the men to join with him,when in the neighbourhood of the Crows, whose coun-try they were approaching, in carrying off a numberof the horses with their packages of goods, and desert-ing to those savages. He assured them of good treat-ment among the Crows, the principal chiefs and warriorsof whom he knew; they would soon become great menamong them, and have the daughters of the chiefs forwives; and the horses and goods they carried off wouldmake them rich for life. Mr. Hunt resolved to frustrate the knave by mak-ing it sufficiently advantageous for him to remain
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The Tetons 55 honest. He took occasion, accordingly, in the courseof conversation, to inform Rose that, having engagedhim chiefly as a guide and interpreter through thecountry of the Crows, the company would not stand inneed of his services beyond. Knowing, therefore, hisconnection by marriage with that tribe, and his predi-lection for a residence among them, they would put norestraint upon his will, but, whenever they met with aparty of that people, would leave him at liberty to re-main among his adopted brethren. Furthermore, thatin thus parting with him, they would pay him half ayears wages in consideration of his past services, andwould give him a horse, three beaver traps, and sundryother articles calculated to set him up in the world.This liberality was so unexpected that Roses wholemanner changed; his brow cleared up; he appearedmore cheerful; he left off his sullen, skulking habits,and made no further attempt to tamper with the faithof his comrades. The travellers, after much

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