Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Preacher's peace	William W. Johnstone	Long before there was a mountain man called Preacher, a young adventurer set off with a team of fur traders from St Louis for the time of his life. On a wild frontier, he sought a fortune. Instead he…	OL111206W
Memoirs of an Arctic Arab	Peter Baker	Thrilling biography, full of details, of names, places, dates, even weather conditions of a specific period of time.Wow, you will live the events of which the author had gone through, even will wor…	OL13995590W
The broken blade	William Durbin	In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he'd be leaving Montreal to paddle 2,400 miles. It was something older men, like his father, did. But when Pierre's father has an accident, Pierre q…	OL15395505W
Dr. Beaumont and the man with the hole in his stomach	Sam Epstein	A biography of a curious physician and the unusual patient who enabled him to carry out experiments concerning digestion.	OL1590571W
The Indian way	Neil D. Van Sickle	Van Sickle and Rodewald look at the fur trades cultural impact and demonstrate the great extent to which white adventurers, explorers and traders heavily relied upon the Native American tribes and em…	OL16687982W
The life and times of John W. Clark of Nushagak, Alaska, 1846-1896	John B. Branson	"John W. Clark (1846-1896) was one of the first Euroamerican residents of Alaska, arriving at St. Michael with the Western Union Telegraph Company Russo-American Expedition to build a worldwide teleg…	OL17595478W
Mountain men	Andrew Santella	A description of the mountain men, nineteenth-century explorers and fur traders who helped open up the West to United States settlement.	OL18016093W
Mountain men of the frontier	Charles W. Sundling	Discusses some of the explorers and trappers who journeyed west to hunt and trade beaver pelts and other commodities during the early nineteenth century.	OL1805693W
Wintering	William Durbin	Pierre, the 14-year-old hero of "The Broken Blade", spends a winter with the North West Company in French Canada. The canoe-men build a camp beside an Ojibwa village, and Pierre learns the deep-winte…	OL1908890W
Pierre de La Vérendrye	Anna Rebus	Take an in-depth look at the life of Pierre de La Verendrye, his accomplishments, goals and successes of each of his expeditions, his hardships, and the equipment and supplies that were used.	OL21975331W
Fur traders	Heather C. Hudak	Discover Canada's remarkable fur trade history.	OL24266408W
Henry Kelsey	Gillian Richardson	Take and in-depth look at the life of Henry Kelsey, his accomplishments, the routes travelled, his hardships, and the equipment and supplies used during his early travels of Canada.	OL24269227W
The fur trader	Pamela McDowell	An Early Canadians educational book which outlines a typical day in the life of a fur trader, taking a look at the tools they used and changes in their role over time.	OL26446662W
Strangers in blood	Brown,Jennifer S. H. Brown	Describes the social world of the traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. Examines differences between the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and their effects on Indian-white relations.	OL2956120W
Jedediah Smith and the mountain men of the American West	John Logan Allen	Chronicles the exploits of the mountain men who opened many trails and passages through the American West in the early nineteenth century.	OL4099825W
Shortcut to peril	James I. Clark	Relates the adventure of a beaver trapper who survived for 57 days after becoming lost in the wilderness of British Columbia.	OL4737960W
Many tender ties	Sylvia Van Kirk	The role of Indian, mixed-blood and white women in the fur trade is analyzed.	OL5914090W