Somehow I thought this thread was going to be a journey through history. I was just wondering if it took the equivalent of $240-275 in today's money in beaver pelts, tobacco, whiskey, or coffee for a GFE back in the trapper days. (Beads no good.) I would bet some of those trappers were some horney mofos by the time they got back to Montreal.
Is there a book about famous SPs on the Canadian frontier? I have met people in the UP of Michigan who are the descendants of French trappers who walked and rode horses out to there. There must have been some "saloon" incalls in between.