The Best Trappers in the Platte

A few years after Pasquinel and McKeag became business partners the frenchman, Pasquinel decided that they should become trappers. A trapper is the person who trapped the beavers, skinned them and sold them afterward. Pasquinel said indians did not always have what they wanted and this way they could finance their own trips and supplies, without the need for a sponsor. McKeag was concerned, they did not know anything about trapping,but Pasquinel assured him they would learn. At first they barely cached anything and faces hunger and low income. that spring they did not return to civilisation and decided they would practice until winter, trapping time, came along. they finally started getting better and divided the labours. Pasquinel would catch the beavers in his traps while McKeag would skin them perfectly (he had learned this while Pasquinel perfected his traps) and they became known as the best trappers in the Platte. 

This is a type of beaver trap

"Normally a father would have preferred his daughters marry to a more substantial type, say, established businessmen, but Bockweiss had not made that long journey from Munich to Saint Louis because he was cautious." (Michener 193). In older times people married because of money and social status. Nowadays people marry because they fell in love and they want to spend their lives together right? The thing is, in my eyes people still believe that some people are not good enough because they do not have as much money or a good job. There are very few people who an say that they do not care who they marry as long as they are in love, that they did not care what their job or future looked like when they met. People claim our society had advanced but I see that in certain matters in has only improved the way of hiding what is really happening. I am not saying we have not improved, but I still see this happening a lot, in some cases very close to me, where a person in flagged because of their social position or their income. people should be equal but how can we reach that point if all we are teaching the next generations if that if you don't have the money or the job with a big pay check people will change your view on you, even dismiss you because you are not on their "class". 

"But the Oregon trappers who had been working the rivers for a longer time, knew that McKeag was right. The beaver were thinning out." (Michener 226). Since old times humans have ended up abusing nature, taking what it has to offer and overusing it so much species have disappeared in our hands, like lonesome George, the last galapagos giant turtle. This is what ahas happening to the beavers here in this part of the story. Thanks to the excessive trapping they were not haven enough time to reproduce and that decreased the number of beavers available each season. why does man destroy the environment around him? One day we will be left with nothing, and that is when people are going to start to care, when it is too late to do something about it. 

Humans are superficial, we tend not to care about what is inside about what we have until its gone, about the damage we cause someone or something and because of that we are going to be the ones who kill ourselves in the end, because we did not care when we could.