post-trader

St. Louis, Colonel Bullock, post-trader at Fort Laramie, and others, were present.

Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle

But he will look in vain for selected specimens of the emigrant-runner, the luxuries of the steerage and Castle Garden, or for photographs of the well-fed post-trader and Indian agent, agricultural products from Captain Jack's lava-bed reservation and jars of semi-putrescent treaty-beef.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

The post-trader looked at it and pretended it was iron, saying to the Indian, "No good."

Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle

What is almost incredible, however, is that, blinded evidently by Frank's social graces, he took the genial and slippery post-trader into the syndicate, and appointed him superintendent.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

During the military régime, Frank had been post-trader, a berth which was an eminent article of barter on the shelves of congressional politicians and for which fitness seemed to consist in the ability to fill lonely soldiers with untold quantities of bad whiskey.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

The life of the free-trader satisfied his longing for travel and adventure, which his life as a post-trader had not.

The Gun-Brand 1921

"If you need him," said the post-trader, closing his ledger, "you can offer him five more a month."

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

It was thus with Major Murphy, who located as post-trader at the little frontier post known as Fort Stanton, which was founded by Captain Frank Stanton in 1854, in the Indian days.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

And long after the light went out he still looked toward the home of the post-trader, his brain filled with thoughts of his return to his former life outside the army, the old life to which he vowed he would not return alone.

Ranson's Folly Richard Harding Davis 1890

The next morning, when the exchange was empty, the post-trader turned from arranging cans of condensed milk upon an upper shelf to face the sergeant's revolver.

Ranson's Folly Richard Harding Davis 1890