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...some other fur...
When the Philadelphia militia was called out in 1776, Peale, dressed in a brown uniform and black tricornered hat, and equipped with a sword, a musket with telescopic sights of his own invention, new fur gloves, a quarter cask of rum and his painting kit. rode off at the head of his company of 81 men. Peale, a green militiaman, found his first view of the face of the war "a hellish sight." Standing up to his first volley (discharged from British muskets outside Princeton), Peale noted with surprise the "balls which whistled their thousand different notes around our heads...
...Lawrence-Great Lakes route has been North America's most important waterway. Cartier thought he had found a new route to China; he and later French explorers pressed on upriver expecting to find Oriental gold and spices. They never reached China, but the voyageurs, fur traders and missionaries who came after them canoed up the river and its tributaries into lands that were to prove far richer than fabled Cathay. The river led them to the Mississippi Valley, the Great Plains and the fur, mineral and timber country of Northern Ontario and Quebec. Their camp sites, trading posts...
...problem of keeping up with demand. Coonskin hats, the biggest seller next to anachronistic Davy Crockett T shirts, have touched off the biggest run on raccoons since the giddy '205; coon tails once selling for 25? a Ib. are now nearly $5 a Ib. Seattle's Arctic Fur Co., which has shrewdly been buying wolf pelts for years, is producing 5,000 ersatz coonskin hats daily. In some stores Davy Crockett accounts for 10% of all children's wear...
...made the coon-fur fly when the morning and evening Baltimore Sun, for the first time in this century, decided to support the Republican mayoral candi date. The Sun attacked "complacency, bossism and corruption" in Baltimore, but Tommy D'Alesandro gleefully offered an other explanation for the switch: Sam Hopkins works as secretary and assistant treasurer of the Fidelity & Deposit Co., controlled by Harry Crawford Black, who is also principal owner of the A. S. Abell Co., publisher of the Sun. When the Sun came out for Hopkins, D'Alesandro stalked over to the editorial offices personally...