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Incidentally, I seem to recall reading somewhere that skins as slang for `dollars' dates from frontier days when trappers used animal skins as currency, and is therefore much older than early 20th-century Harlem.
Everything is plausible except the business about trappers: the expression could just have easily originated in the parts of America settled earliest, for deer exhibit the same behavior (and, indeed, their tails are called flags for that very reason); also, deer, antelope, and many other animals in Europe have “hightailed it” for centuries.
Apart from a few explorers, trappers, gold-diggers, and oil drillers, most Canadians have preferred to hug the narrow strip along the American border and know little of the northern wilderness.
French names, of course, are common in the Upper Midwest (where French explorers and missionaries, and French-speaking trappers, left their mark), in states bordering Quebec, and in Louisiana.
They didn’t stay for long, but gradually other traders and fur trappers began to arrive overland through Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, settling only in small numbers until the famous covered wagons began their heroic treks of the 1840s.