fur traders

In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Fur Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns from both the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share.

Nick, chasing through the woods with his older brother Chris, is transported back in time to the nineteenth century where he meets female fur trader Meggie La Framboise and her assistant LeClaire.

Relates the adventure of a beaver trapper who survived for 57 days after becoming lost in the wilderness of British Columbia.

A biography of a curious physician and the unusual patient who enabled him to carry out experiments concerning digestion.

Ann and Meg encounter danger and adventure when they join a group of voyageurs on a trip across the Canadian wilderness in hopes of finding their fur-trader father.

Chronicles the exploits of the mountain men who opened many trails and passages through the American West in the early nineteenth century.

Describes the adventures and trials experienced by explorers of the western United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

A young Metis boy who lives with his family near the trading post of Fort William earns the status of a true voyageur when he helps a representative of the North West Company whose canoe has been damaged in a storm reach the annual rendezvous celebration.

In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.

When an injury prevents his father from going into northern Canada with fur traders, thirteen-year-old Pierre decides to take his father's place as a voyageur.