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...family foofaraws." Do you know what foofaraw means? It is a word that was used by the fur traders and trappers in the Rockies in the early 1800s. It meant the trinkets these men gave the Indian girls and squaws for their favors. It might even mean fur jackets or a horse and saddle. Foofaraw was whatever it took to make...
...hung around barrooms waiting for drunks to come out fighting and perhaps lose some money for him to pick up; he parched stolen corn, swam to the Ohio shore and pushed back watermelons, set trotlines for catfish and trapped muskrats for the local doctor, who was an abortionist and fur dealer on the side. For a while he had as partner a deaf ex-moonshiner who had done a stretch in the pen, and from him he got a recipe for making corn likker that is one of the highlights of the book...
...spend, and fashionmakers' fall lines reflect this. To provide for the growing mass market, the garment trade hopes to concentrate on fewer styles, and counts on mass production to hold prices down. There will be more of the basic models-nubby coats, colorful wool knits and fur-trimmed garments. Dresses are being made with jackets for double duty, the jacket removable for evening. Corset and other foundation-garment makers have cut the number of styles by a third, yet have managed to bring out a new assortment suitable even for bikini wearers. In June bridal gowns, the train that...
...NORTHWEST FUR TRAPPER. Riding a trapper's bullboat through boiling rapids (on an underwater track), tourists are woofed at by bears, screamed at by wildcats, bellowed at by a bull moose that was shot in British Columbia, stuffed in Denver and wired in The Bronx for a total cost of $5,000. The boat passes a ghost town where skeleton miners are strewn around on the ground, a skeleton outlaw swings from a tree, and a skeleton fisherman sits on the river bank with a fish skeleton on the end of his line...
...publisher: "'Mohicans is looking up famously in Europe." The resident intellectuals, including Jean Jacques Rousseau with his ideals about the "noble savage," had softened up the civilized world for Cooper and his admirable aborigines. He was as much a social lion as Benjamin Franklin in his fur...