Germany Expects Two Years of War Says Returning Visitor
J A Cords of Butte reports from Germany that citizens believe war will last at least two years. He says many do not oppose Hitler though some groups may, praise his order but call him an odd character. Food rationing is seen as necessary, and civilians accept sacrifices without complaint.
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Hitler
J. A. Cords
Butte
Cords
Germany
Poland
United States
Oslo
Friseoll Cords
Wisconsin
E Harb
Hambur
Big Stearns
Europe
Fur Trade Tales From Buffalo Bill Era
An account surveys the early fur trade profits and methods, detailing barter over money, Indian traders, trading posts with fortified design, and the rush for whisky guns and trinkets. It notes how traders valued goods and used staged entry to control exchanges with tribes, including the role of women and the dominance of showy wares.
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Henry Inman
Buffalo Bill
Santa Fe Trail
Washington Irving
New York
Connecticut
National Guardsmen to Have Field Work in December
Twenty one units of the Montana national guard will take seven day field work courses in December under a war department emergency order. State Adj. Gen. John W. Mahan said the Poplar Malta Wolf Point Bainville Glasgow companies began training at Fort Peck on December 2 and are housed in workers' barracks there. First battalion headquarters company will train at a CCC camp near Whitehall with others at their home areas.
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Montana National Guard
War Department
Adj
John W. Mahan
Poplar
Malta
Wolf Point
Bainville
Glasgow
Fort Peck
CCC
Whitehall
Ases
Traders and Indians in Early US Fur Trade Era
The account describes price games, deception, and violence during early fur trade between white traders and Native Americans. It notes how goods and money altered Native economies, the shift from barter to cash, and the rise of government and company control, ending with stray notes on 1894 Japan and 1937 tax figures.
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Colonel Inman
Eveluo
United States
Congress
American Co the Fur Co
Misso Fur Co
trans-Missouri
Japan
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