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Document 46: Letter from Lynn Smith, Rampart, December 17, 1903.

Had a crowd of Tanana Indians in for two days. Paid $150 for a Black Fox....Got 8 bear about 50 marten...and red fox....half starved and almost naked all sore eyed and jerking with disease. Leprosy or something of that order.

—Lynn Smith letter, 17 December 1903, from Rampart, Alaska, describing fur trading visit with Native peoples

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