Rocky mountain fur

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I would have copied Rocky Mountain Fur company because they minimized costs without losing much profit. They had no ships, no forts, no Indians to buy trinkets for. They still made huge amounts of money off of the mountain men trading their furs to them for goods the mountain men needed. The American Rocky Mountain Fur site states that the mountain men were veterans in the trade. This would make them effective and efficient trappers. According to the Rocky mountain fur site, the Rocky Mountain Fur company was constantly a challenge to the Hudson Bay company, which at that time dominated pretty much everything.