THE FUR TRADE

AUTUMN

• People arrived at snake river
• They arrived there in October 1804
• John Sayer was the leader
• John was a trader
• He brought his wife on the trip

AUTUMN

• He saw relationships between the ojibwe

WINTER

• Small families hunted in certain places
• The men hunted and traded
• The women cooked and perpared furs
• John was stubborn while trading with the ojibwe
• John kept a close eye on the other trading posts

WINTER

• Joseph was mostly away from the fort
• Companies built sleds and chopped wood

SPRING

• John counted his beaver pelts as the weather got warmer
• John left Snake River with hundreds of pelts
• It took four weeks for john to get to fort william
• Seraphin Lamare did his best to keep his boss happy
• Joseph netted fish and hunted ducks

SUMMER

• The trading cycle ended with Rendezvous
• Hundreds of people came
• Workers packed for the trip
• Canoes arrived with goods
• Traders collected the goods that they ordered