This painting depicts a typical scene that could have
taken place during the 1850s in the Yellowstone River Valley of Wyoming.

After a long winter of hunting bison and trapping beavers, anxious wives and young children watch Crow braves sorting and packing the bison skins and beaver pelts that they would use to trade/ barter with the many white trappers who would be passing through the valley in the coming Spring.

These seasonal trading excursions were extremely
important to fulfilling the supply needs of the Crow.
And in return for their bison skins and beaver pelts,
they would receive much needed blankets, metal tools, firearms & ammunition and cloth from the white trappers.