bogaert, harmen meyndertsz van den

Early in the winter of 1634, a young Dutch trader set out with his friends from a distant outpost of the tiny Dutch colony on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, seeking to establish new friendships with the surrounding tribes that would strengthen the faltering Dutch fur trade.

An illustrated children's version of the journal of a young Dutch trader, Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, who journeyed into the land of the Iroquois Indians, a Mohawk tribe that controlled the trade routes in the area, in 1634, seeking to bolster the Dutch trade in what is now New York State.