Ebook A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner

Among the most active of the extraneous causes which have produced this conspicuous and deplorable change, must be reckoned the trade for peltries, which has been pushed among them from the earliest occupation of the country by the 'whites. The ensuing narrative will afford some views of the fur trade, such as it formerly existed in the north west, such as it now exists throughout the territories claimed by the United States. These views are certainly neither those of a.