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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, American Old West, Economic history of Canada, Canadian folklore, Fur traders
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coureur de bois  coureur des bois  coureurs de bois  coureurs des bois  Runners of the woods
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A coureur des bois or coureur de bois was an independent entrepreneurial French Canadian trader who travelled in New France and the interior of North America, usually to trade with First Nations peoples by exchanging various European items for furs. Wikipedia
French-Canadian independent fur traders Wikidata
A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities. Wiktionary
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