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The Trader.
The trader was the first pathfinder.

His caravans began the change of purpose that was to come to the Indian warrior's route, turning it slowly into the beaten track of communication and commerce.

The settlers, the rangers, the surveyors, went westward over the trails which he had blazed for them years before.

Their enduring works are commemorated in the cities and farms which today lie along every ancient border line; but of their forerunner's hazardous Indian trade nothing remains.