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October 27, 2024

BEAVER HATS, BUCKSKINS AND MORE

Enthäsiastic trading between Native Americans and 17th-century Euro settlers benefited both parties- but decimated the region's wildlife in onle a few decades.

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How much will three bucks buy?

The answer depends on who's counting. In the colony of Carolina, deer hides (buckskins) soon became a popular item for trading.

Native Americans traded deer skins and other animal pelts for sharp, English- made hatchets and knives, colorful textiles, guns, or iron cooking pots to outlast their pottery bowls. Charles Towne settlers, in turn, sold animal hides for cash to meet a growing European demand for leather.

Early settlers "harvested" Carolina's plentiful natural resources-white-tailed deer, beavers, bobcats, bears, otters, foxes and wolves-as though the supply would last forever.

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