woodrunners

Updated: May 12, 2025

This great idea had been taking form in his mind from the days of his early boyhood, when, seated before the great log fire in his father's home in Three Rivers, he had first listened to the stirring tales of the woodrunners. Years went by, however, before he could attempt to put his plans into execution.

Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee - Pathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons