The Fur Trade in Northwestern Development (Classic Reprint)
Author: Frederic William Howay
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781333364373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Fur Trade in Northwestern Development In carrying on their trade the Nor' Westers the Lords of the Lakes and Forests, as Washington Irving has called them, following the line of least resistance, always clung closely to the natural waterways or to the Indian trails. All of us have in memory's storehouse, as a result of our early reading, vivid pic tures of the North West brigade of deeply laden canoes manned by sturdy voyageurs, bedizened with many-colored ribbons sweeping along the narrow willow-embroidered streams of the interior, and making the neighboring hills reecho with En roulant ma boule or other french-canadian chansons. It was no part of that com pany's policy to build roads or trails, to improve communications, or, generally speaking, to employ in short transportation any beast of burden but man. Even along the main line of travel but little effort was made to ameliorate conditions. Like the stolid Indian, they seemed to think it beneath them to remove any natural obstruction which they might encounter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
