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- noun US, historical The head man at the Fort Union trading post on the upper Missouri River at the confluence of the Yellowstone River, circa 1849.
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'booshway', means a manager or boss of a trading company -- he had absolute authority at his outpost, and conducted business with an almost military discipline.
Footnotes to the Henry Brackenridge Journal of a Voyage of 1811 1811
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