The Voyageur (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780873512138)

The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts at traversing the treacherous rapids and dangerous open waters of the canoe routes from Quebec and Montreal to the regions bordering the Great Lakes and on to the Mackenzie and Columbia Rivers. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, explorers and fur traders relied on the voyageurs to open up the vast reaches of North America to settlement and trade.

A noted scholar of the fur trade, Grace Lee Nute was a curator at the Minnesota Historical Society, a professor of history at Hamline University, and the author of The Voyageur's Highway.

Author: Grace Lee Nute
ISBN-10: 0873512138
ISBN-13: 9780873512138
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1987
Pages: 301
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.80d