20 Items Frontier Trading Posts REALLY Offered (Westerns Never Showed You This)

20 Items Frontier Trading Posts REALLY Offered (Westerns Never Showed You This) Frontier trading posts offered far more than guns and whiskey, from fire steels, bone-replacing steel awls, and brass kettles to stroud wool, glass beads, coffee, and sugar. This video counts down twenty real trade goods and practices, including the Northwest trade gun, vermilion paint, Hudson's Bay blankets, pawn and credit systems, and the interpreters who linked trader and customer. Subscribe for more.