 to the company but then there were also freemen they were the guys who could afford to buy their own supplies and they they worked with various brigades but they bought their own supplies and they did their own trapping and whatever first they got they traded usually back to that same company they didn't have to but that's usually what happened and the longer it went on and the more companies that came up here and were competing that that was an advantage to the free trapper because they could kind of go wherever the best deal was for them