History: Benjamin Bonneville, Simple Trapper or Government Agent?

Most of the trappers and mountain men who came west in the early 1800s came to trap fur-bearing animals, mainly beaver, to sell the hides and make a pile of money. Beaver fur was used in ‘beaver hats’ that were considered to be ‘in the vogue’ in Europe and later in American. At one time beaver felt

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