Description

Author: Walter O Meara
Publisher: Bantam H3121
Year: 1966 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.60
Condition: Very Good. Light wear

Genre: Fiction Historical Novel

SKU: 70124155E

Pages: 280

The Grand Portage—The Great Novel of Traders and Trappers in the Northwest 1800-1819.

“VIOLENT, BRUTAL AND RAW AS TRADING RUM…A FIRST-RATE TALE OF THE FIGHT FOR FURS THAT SENT RUGGED, UNSCRUPULOUS MEN FROM THEIR LAKE SUPERIOR HEADQUARTERS NORTH TO HUDSON S BAY, THE ARCTIC CIRCLE AND THE PACIFIC COAST.”—Salt Lake Tribune

“PRESENTS A SWEEPING PANORAMA OF THE NORTHWEST FUR TRADE…THE COLD RIVERS, THE TRAMPLED PORTAGES, THE JOSTLING LIFE OF THE GREAT DEPOTS AND THE LONELY WASTES OF WOODS AND PRAIRIE.”—Chicago Tribune