A Brief Introduction To The Fur In The Wilderness Hunter

Janleonardo DiCaprio The Revenant picked Oscar as the best man and became the highlight of Oscar.

The film, which has the highest style of story and image, also let director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu win the best director award of this year's Oscar.

Thanks to wilderness hunter, Oscar will be even more gloomy this year.

The little gold man has to thank the man who really experienced the nightmare of the plums on the screen -- Hugh Glass, a tough hero in the pioneering period of the western United States.

On 1822, Hugh Glass, a 42 year old Irish American, saw an advertisement in a newspaper in Missouri. He summoned 100 young men who took the risk to go back to the Missouri River to explore.

Trade business.

At that time, fur trading accounted for a large proportion in the world trade system.

Fur

As a luxury consumer goods, it has long been an indispensable part of the upper class in Europe.

It is said that a sable robe of King Henry VIII consumed 350 skins.

The depletion of European fur resources has prompted the colonies of North America to pour into this profiteering industry.

In 1733, a good beaver skin of Hudson Bay Company could get 1/2 pounds of beige beads, 3/4 pounds of colored beads, 1 brass kettles, 1 pounds of lead bombs, 1.5 pounds of powder or 2 pounds of sugar.

In this industry, Hugh Glass's work is commonly known as "mountain man".

This occupation is the North American fur.

Vigorous development came into being. They are front-line workers in fur trade. During the heyday of 1820 to 1840, the number of mountaineers active in the Rocky Mountains reached more than 3000.

They live in the open air, and hunt fur from rare animals in the western regions of the country, which are exported to foreign countries through fur trading companies at the top level.

The mountain people are divided into three grades.

The bottom line is the Engages, who supplies everything from the company to the company.

Share Croppers and Skin Trappers are in the middle position. The company provides equipment for them, and the season ends with deducting the proportion of the leather from the harvest.

The top is free Hunter (Free-trapper). They come and go freely. They are wild with the regiment. The price of freedom is that they can not enjoy the minimum wage in the famine year.

In the romantic imagination of many people, the lone mountain people are lonely travelers who seek adventure and excitement in the wilderness of the West.

But on the whole, the typical mountain people are such a kind of people: they play tricks and fight bravely and fight harder than others. They claim to ride the best horse, go to the most barren land, get away from the most dangerous places, kill the most Indians and bears, and are most popular with Indian beauties, drink the most spirits and earn the most money.

The mountain people in reality are certainly not so beautiful.

The North American fur trade has two routes, and the mountain people participate in the way along the Rocky Mountains.

They gang and take beavers as their main prey.

The captured leather is traded on the rendezvous once a year, and then sold to the metropolis.

Another fur trade route starts from the upper reaches of the Missouri river. It relies mainly on the trade of buffalo skins between the Indian aboriginal tribes and the white business stacks. The end of the line is the downstream Saint Louis city.

The two routes appear to be distinct, but conflicts of interest also occur frequently.

Considering the various factors such as the terrain environment, capital consumption and Indian tribal public opinion, trading companies will flexibly call the mountain and Indian tribal resources to maximize animal fur.