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A Companhia da Baía de Hudson
The author's first-hand account of the first 3 or 4 years of his career with the Hudson's Bay Company during the early part of the 1800's. Includes personal narratives of his day-to-day adventures, duties to "the Company", personal trials and tribulations in the far north country of Canada, trips and expeditions, and several accounts of his hunting and fishing excursions - all before the age of…
Temas em comum: Fourrures, Fur trade, Commerce, Description and travel
Primeiras Viagens ao Oeste, 1748-1846
A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel: descriptive of the Indians and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement, Edited with notes, introduction, index, etc. The 32 volumes of reprints include 2 volumes of indexes. Some of the reprints are offered separately on this website, and…
Temas em comum: Fourrures, Fur trade, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel
As aventuras do capitão Bonneville, EUA
While engaged in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United States, was accustomed to have at his board various persons of adventurous turn, some of…
Temas em comum: Fur trade, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel