Sentence:  Hercules L. Dousman , fur trader and merchant at Prairie du Chien , contracted to supply Selkirk 's <WSD>people</WSD> with some 300 head of cattle , and Alexis Bailly and Francois Labothe were hired as drovers . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively