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DUST OF THE FUR TRADE

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The Indians of the plains lived a good life, with a heap of meat and clothes from the buffalo. He rode a horse sought after by Kings of the world, the great Andalusian of the Spanish.

The first white eyes that he saw were the mountain men drawn to the mountains of
New Mexico and the Northwest by the demand for beaver pelts (or plews) in the early 1800's.

The Andalusian would, in a half-century, vanish as a breed, with heavy cross breeding of thoroughbreds, etc.

The paradise he knew, covered with game, would soon give way to settlers, sod busters, prospectors, cowboys and railroads, a world he could not exist in. So as a great warrior the beginning of the fur trade was the beginning of an end for him as well.

 

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