grease trail is an overland trade route, part of a network of trails connecting the Pacific coast with the Interior in the Pacific Northwest. Trails were...
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Tlingit controlled the trail, which they used for trade with the Athabascan people of the interior. They called the trail "grease trail" after the eulachon...
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The Alexander MacKenzie Heritage Trail (also Nuxalk-Carrier Route, Blackwater Trail, or simply The Grease Trail) is a 420 km (260 mi) long historical overland...
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by land was, from the Fraser River westward, a grease trail. Other examples include the Cheslatta Trail and the Nyan Wheti. They use the berries of Vaccinium...
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populated by belligerent tribes. He was instead directed to follow a grease trail by ascending the West Road River, crossing over the Coast Mountains and...
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The Chilkoot Trail is a 33-mile (53 km) trail through the Coast Mountains that leads from Dyea, Alaska, in the United States, to Bennett, British Columbia...
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trapped there and were part of an ancient trade network called the Grease Trail. The grease was actually eulachon oil. from the oolichan, or candlefish, a...
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Eulachon (redirect from Ooligan grease)
"Eulachon grease") was traded with inland communities; as a result, the trails over which the trade was conducted came to be known as grease trails.[citation...
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The Cheslatta Trail (or Tsetl'adak ts'eti in Carrier) is an ancient land route in British Columbia, Canada, that stretched from the Dakelh villages of...
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West Road River (category Grease trails)
a trail—the so-called "Grease Trail"—on the northern side of the river in their trade with coastal First Nations communities. The name Grease Trail refers...
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