Word: reddeford
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...expansion is a tribute to some of history's forgotten men. Equipped with half a dozen five-pound beaver traps, a rifle and a tomahawk, such buckskin-clothed trappers as Antoine Robidoux (who built the first trading post west of the Rockies' main range), Joseph Reddeford Walker (discoverer of Yosemite Valley) and Old Bill Williams stared down danger and brought a fortune in furs out of virgin streams. For most of them, the yearly rendezvous, a "combined festival and fair" in the wilderness, was their only contact with civilization. There they sold their furs, bought their supplies...
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