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of the American law * forbidding British traders in 

 the United States, reached as far south as Utah and 

 the Missouri, where it once more had a sharp brush with 

 lusty rivals. 



* A law that could not, of course, be enforced, except as to 

 the building of permanent forts, in regions beyond the reach of 

 law s enforcement. 



