Broken Contracts
On April 19th, 1806, Meriwether Lewis wrote:
in the evening Capt. Clark set out with four men to the Enesher village at the grand falls in order to make a further attempt to procure horses. These people are very faithless in their contracts. they frequently receive the merchandize in exchange for their horses and after some hours insist on some additional article being given them or revoke the exchange. They have pilfered several small articles from us this evening. (Lewis, from Moulton V.7, 142)
Related pages:
Tomahawk Dispute | Helpful Hands | Shrewd Dealers | Problems with the Enesher and Skillutes
Invaluable Horses | An Uninvited Guest | Honesty Between Indians
Canceling Trade | Broken Contracts | Trouble with the Wah-clel-lars
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