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Updated: September 15, 2025
So list ye the song of the Bois-Brulés, Of their glorious deeds in the days of old, And this is the tale of the buffalo hunt Which I, Pierre, the rhymester, have proudly told. A more desolate existence than the life of a fur-trading winterer in the far north can scarcely be imagined.
This very isolation from the mother country, at a time when the New Englanders were pushing their fur-trading activities into the regions claimed by the Dutch and the French, rendered some sort of united action necessary and desirable. The settlers were of one stock and one purpose.
Associated with Laclede in his fur-trading operations at the new post was a lithe young man named Pierre Chouteau. In 1846 eighty-two years afterwards Francis Parkman sat on the spacious veranda of Pierre Chouteau's country house near the city of St.
But old Beaver-Tail explained with rare appreciation his reasons for this consent. He said he wished the boy to learn English, so that he would grow up to be a keen, sharp trader, like the men of the Hudson's Bay Company, the white men who were so apt to outwit the redskins in a fur-trading bargain.
By no means the most northerly trading-posts of the great fur-trading company, Fort Vermilion, their present destination, seemed to our young friends almost as though it were at the edge of the world.
Louis that they knew nothing about white man ways, except such as they noticed at the fur-trading posts and here the ways were mixed with Indian ways.
In a word, before they had left Hoffman, they had bound themselves by oath to try to seize a fur-trading ship to escape across the Pacific. Stephanow, the common convict, was the one danger. He might play spy and obtain freedom by betraying all. To prevent this, each man was required to sign his name to an avowal of the conspirators' aim. Hoffman was to follow as soon as he could.
Fort Laramie was an old frontier post, such as has not existed for many years. Nearby, three or four thousand Sioux, Northern Cheyennes and Northern Arapahoes were encamped, most of them spending much of the time at the post. Laramie had been established by a fur-trading company in 1834. In 1840 or thereabouts the Government bought it and made it a military post.
The last-named was a prolific stock, from which several notable explorers and servants of the fur-trading companies were drawn. The situation was a rather delicate one, for the Hudson's Bay Company was a thorn in the side of French Canada.
Jack's poor, weak eyes fairly danced; it was a beautiful new revolver. "But, unc I mean, Larry why do we take revolvers on a fur-trading expedition?" he asked. Matt Larson shot a swift glance at him, answering quietly, "There are other things up north besides furs." "Do you mean desperadoes?" questioned Jack. "Well," hesitated his uncle, "perhaps I do; perhaps I mean other things, too."
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