{"product_id":"9781494333874","title":"Canadian Wilds: Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc.","description":"The Hudson's Bay Company \u003cbr\u003eThe Free Trader\u003cbr\u003eOutfitting Indians\u003cbr\u003eTrackers of the North\u003cbr\u003eProvisions for the Wilderness \u003cbr\u003eForts and Posts\u003cbr\u003eAbout Indians \u003cbr\u003eWholesome Foods \u003cbr\u003eOfficers' Allowance \u003cbr\u003eInland Packs \u003cbr\u003eIndian Mode of Hunting Beaver \u003cbr\u003eIndian Mode of Hunting Lynx and Marten \u003cbr\u003eIndian Mode of Hunting Foxes \u003cbr\u003eIndian Mode of Hunting Otter and Musquash\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable Success \u003cbr\u003eThings to Avoid\u003cbr\u003eAnticosti and Its Furs\u003cbr\u003eChiselling and Shooting Beaver \u003cbr\u003eThe \"Indian Devil\" \u003cbr\u003eA Tame Seal \u003cbr\u003eThe Care of Blistered Feet \u003cbr\u003eDeer Sickness \u003cbr\u003eA Case of Nerve\u003cbr\u003eAmphibious Combats \u003cbr\u003eArt of Pulling Hearts \u003cbr\u003eDark Furs \u003cbr\u003eIndians Are Poor Shots \u003cbr\u003eA Bear in the Water \u003cbr\u003eVoracious Pike \u003cbr\u003eThe Brass-Eyed Duck \u003cbr\u003eGood Wages Trapping \u003cbr\u003eA Pard Necessary \u003cbr\u003eAn Heroic Adventure \u003cbr\u003eWild Oxen \u003cbr\u003eLong Lake Indians\u003cbr\u003eDen Bears\u003cbr\u003eThe Mishaps of Ralson\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION.\u003cbr\u003eBy the courtesy of Forest and Stream and Hunter-Trader-Trapper these articles are republished in book form by the author.\u003cbr\u003eI have been induced to bring them out a second time under one cover by the frequent requests of my fellow bushmen who were kind enough to criticise them favorably when they first appeared in the magazine.\u003cbr\u003eIn this preamble I think it proper and possibly interesting to the reader to have a short synopsis of my career.\u003cbr\u003eI entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1863 as a clerk and retired in 1903 a commissioned officer of twenty years' standing.\u003cbr\u003eThe modes of Trapping and Hunting were learned directly by personal participation in the chase with the Indians and the other stories heard first hand from the red man.\u003cbr\u003eMy service in the employ of the Great Fur Company extended from Labrador in the East to Fort William on Lake Superior in the West and from the valley of the St. Lawrence in the South to the headwaters of its feeders in the North.\u003cbr\u003eBy canoes and snowshoes I have traveled on the principal large rivers flowing south from the height of land, among them I may mention the Moisee, Bersimis, St. Maurice, Ottawa, Michipocoten, Pic and Nepigon.\u003cbr\u003eI have hunted, trapped and traded with the Montagnais, Algonquins and Ojibways, the three largest tribes that inhabit the country mentioned in the foregoing boundaries and therefore the reader can place implicit reliance in what is herein set forth. Giving a synopsis of the history of The Hudson's Bay Company, its Forts and Posts and the Indians they traded with as well as other incidents of the Canadian wilds.\u003cbr\u003eRespectfully, MARTIN HUNTER.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054998667504,"sku":"9781494333874","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781494333874_p0.jpg?v=1763664708","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781494333874","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}