Sorry, folks.  I had an emergency (partner fell and broke her arm) in the
middle of my post and just sent it, as it was.
 
I wanted to give the citation for the reference I have.
L.A. Clarkson
1960      The Organization of the English Leather Industry in the Late
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.  Economic History Review
13(2):245-256.
 
Certainly, those of us in the Southeast know that this article deals with a
time period earlier than the one in which deerskins, in particular, were
traded most heavily.  The eighteenth century was the boom for skin
traders, both European and Indian.  My interest in the reason for it are
tangential to my examination of its impacts, which so drastically altered
(or created the milieu that many of the social, economic, cultural, and
spiritual changes occurred in) the  the lives of the Indians in this region.
 
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