A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010 Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan Award Winner of the O

A detailed and perceptive account of the fur trade seen through the eyes of a teenaged boy.

A history of the North American fur trade, based on primary sources. The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fiftee

?Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance,? writes Janet Lecompt

The purpose of this report is to describe the fur trade that took place at Grand Portage between Europeans and Native Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries.