Ep. 399: The Kingpin Antler Dealer
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Bear Market Collapsed and the Wolfers Followed the Bear Market
So we're talking about a mountain man. We're talking about like professional beaver trappers who operated in the inner mountain west between about 1810, um, to 1832. Did they bait? Yep. Uh, for hunting big game now, I can't picture it. They didn't do like side hustles with other kind of fur, not during that period. Now when the beaver market collapsed, many of those guys then got into very serious baiting like a lot of them became wolfers.
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