The chiefs from far before him knelt With gifts of fox and beaver pelt.

Thirty years ago, when he started trapping, a beaver pelt would fetch $50.

Here indeed was a find, for beaver pelts brought much money.

Eleven thousand beaver pelts were yearly brought down to the fort from the unknown river.

Then the Crees had great store of beaver pelts; and trade must not be forgotten.

In the afternoon, Radisson's scouts ran full tilt into a band of Iroquois laden with beaver pelts.

One rifle, stood on its end, could be exchanged for a stack of beaver pelts the same height.

What means the spectacle of white brothers, who preach peace, preparing for war over a few beaver pelts?

He stopped the rum trade with local Indian tribes, and resorted to legitimate exchange to get his beaver pelts.

"It will cost you," Tom considered, "a ducat and a beaver pelt."

The trade in furs, especially the all-important beaver pelts, had been so great that the local Indians had hunted their animals almost to extinction.

Using the captured beaver pelts as shields, the Upper Indians ran the gantlet of the Iroquois fire with the loss of only one man.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, beaver pelts were exported to Europe, where they were in high demand to make felt.

"Fools," cried Radisson, striking a beaver skin across an Indian's shoulder, "will you fight the Iroquois with beaver pelts?

"I know, I know, oh oh oh." At Eastwatch someone had sewn him a motley cloak of beaver pelts, sheepskins, and rabbit fur.