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Explain why the trapper business lasted only about ten years from 1829 to 1840. Plz hurry

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There were thousands of trappers looking for furs all through the Rocky Mountains and Canada. It took only about ten years for the animals to become scarce. Beaver, which had been hunted to make beaver hats were almost hunted to extinction and then fancy people in the east and Europe decided they wanted silk hats and the market for beaver died.

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