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Ward, Lock & Co, London (c1910).
Description
Classic text republished as an eBook.
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LibraryThing member gmillar
A somewhat autobiographical story of the life and country of the Fur Trader. Mr. Ballantyne spent some years as an employee of the Hudson Bay Company and he uses truth and remeniscences, out of chronological sequence, to craft this story.
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1856
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Charlie Kennedy lives in the Canadian arctic colony known as the Red River Settlement, a place peopled by Indians, Scotsmen, and French-Canadian settlers. His father, an old fur trader, hopes to convince his son to become a clerk by recounting the dangers of the trapper s life, but the stories only inspire Charlie all the more to explore the vast Canadian wilderness.