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When Hope Springs New
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Janette Oke
Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself totally isolated when the local Indian women are afraid to even communicate with her. The Delaney's thought they had already faced the most crushing disappointment of their lives ...
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Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870
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Sylvia Van Kirk, PH.D.
Sexual encounters between Indian women and the fur traders of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies are generally thought to have been casual and illicit in nature. This illuminating book reveals instead that Indian-white marriages, sanctioned "after the custom of the country," resulted in many warm and enduring family unions. These were ...
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The Forgotten War
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Stan B Cohen
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Runes of the North.
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Sigurd F. Olson
In Runes of the North Sigurd Olson explores his feelings about the haunting appeal of the wilderness. He recounts how the legends of the northern vastness of Canada and Alaska have influenced him. In the introduction, Olson writes, "My runes have come from the wilderness, for in its solitude, silence, and freedom .... I know there are moments of ...
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The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire
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Mari Sandoz
Covering more than two centuries, "The Beaver Men" ranges from the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham's Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. 'This book is not so much an historical study as a careful and intelligently drawn portrait of a world...that of the Great ...
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The Great North Trail : America's route of the ages
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Dan Cushman
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First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander MacKenzie
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Barry Gough
Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled link to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by canoe and portage, across the uncharted rivers, valleys, and mountains of North America. Mackenzie's 1789 journey to the Arctic Ocean and his arduous journey to the Pacific in 1793 predate the Lewis and ...
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Honourable Company
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Douglas MacKay
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Forgotten Places in the North: York Factory, Herschel Island, the Dew Line
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S R Gage
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Hidden Pacific Northwest: Including Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, Victoria, and Coastal British Columbia
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Eric Lucas
Including Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, Victoria and Costal British Columbia; While Seattle may be leading the growth in this red-hot region, there are still many unspoiled getaways to be found in the Pacific Northwest. This guide balances coverage of vintage favourites with new hot spots. Then it takes you one step further by adding extensive ...
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Adventures on the Columbia River
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Ross Cox
Ross Cox was a fur trader for the Pacific Fur Company. In 1811 he sailed form New York, around the Horn, to Hawaii, and on to the Columbia River, exploring inland to Montana along the Clark Fork and Flathead Rivers. For six years he lived on the frontier--and beyond--in a violent world of white and red men, bears and wolves, frostbite, and ...
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Prisoners of the North
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Pierre Berton
Pierre BertonCanada's most celebrated historianhas earned more than thirty literary awards for his distinguished body of work, and in Prisoners of the North he offers the reader a multitude of magnificent exploits and dazzling personalities. Witness John Hornby risks death as if for amusement as he pursues his obsessive quest for adventure in the ...
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Milepost
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Merchant Princes
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Peter C. Newman
This book draws the author's "Hudson's Bay" saga to its conclusion. Here, the great fur-trading enterprise expands from its original western Canadian base to "conquer" the Arctic, leaving its influence on Inuit culture and lifestyle. How different would Canada's northern territories be now, had there been no Hudson's Bay Company to transform them ...
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The men of the last frontier
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The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896-1899
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Clelie Rich (Editor), Graham Wilson
These 125 historic photographs document the reality of the Klondike Gold Rush and tell the day-to-day struggle of the ordinary stampeder.
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Guide to the Alaska Highway
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Ron Dalby
"Guide to the Alaska Highway" helps travelers tailor a safe, pleasant, and enjoyable drive through this scenic, rugged, 1,500-mile stretch. Lifelong Alaskan Ron Dalby covers every detail from gas prices to where to camp to how to prepare a vehicle for the journey. Also featuring full-color photographs and handy driving tips, this is the only ...
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The Honor of the Big Snows
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James Oliver Curwood
James Oliver Curwood, (1878-1927), was an American novelist and conservationist. He left high school without graduating but was able to pass the entrance exams to the University of Michigan where he studied journalism. In 1900, he sold his first story while working for the Detroit News-Tribune. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the ...
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Tundra
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Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific oceans, in the years 1789 and 1793 : with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that...
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Sir Alexander Mackenzie
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The Alaska Highway in World War II: The U.S. Army of Occupation in Canada's Northwest
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Kenneth Coates, W R Morrison
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Tundra : selections from the great accounts of Arctic land voyages, with ill. and maps
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Farley Mowat (Compiled by)
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Out There
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Ted Kerasote
In today's high-tech world, getting away from the stresses of everyday life can be tricky. Cell phones, palm pilots, and laptop computers allow you to be wired-in from pretty much anywhere. But Ted Kerasote wanted none of that. He wanted a chance to disconnect from the buzz and grind of the wired world. And what better way to do that than to head ...
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Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America; from Canada to Vancouver's island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's territory and back again.
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Paul Kane
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Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece
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Ken McGoogan
In his later years, Samuel Hearne (who died in 1792) met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and recounted the adventures that Coleridge would use as the basis for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Those adventures began when he was a 12-year-old midshipman in the British navy, fighting against France. As his career progressed, he worked for the Hudson's Bay ...
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