Must have worked. Alaska has a limited hunt fo ox.
I bought 20 white fox pelt at the Point Barrow country store for $150. I sent them home to my Mom in Joisey. She had a friend in NYC who took them in trade and gave my Mom a $1,500 mink coat.
I have a picture of some white fox who lived under the module train at one of the Alaskan DEW Line site. The cook fed them and they were pets. DEW Line regulations didn't allow pets but since they didn't come inside I just photographed them and never reported the faux pets!