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1841 G. CatlinLett. N. Amer. Indians II. xxxv. 29 St. Louis..is the great depot of all the Fur Trading Companies to the Upper Missouri and Rocky Mountains.
1911 C. R. L. Fletcher & R. KiplingSchool Hist. Eng. ix. 169 We had a whale-fishing and fur-trading station in Hudson Bay.