Adventurers of Oregon : a Chronicle of the Fur Trade
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Out of the ashes of the old French fur trade, which was under governmental ward, arose a swarm of "free traders." Among them was a woods rover of a new type. English and French pursuing the beaver we have already seen. Now in the throng of the free traders the Scot appears. We shall find him presently taking the French- man's place among the Indians and rising to a leadership in the fur trade which he is never to surrender. He had his difficulties at first. The Indians in the old French hinterl...and distinguished only between French and English; and to them the Scot was an Englishman, one of a race they had been taught by the French to hate. One of the first, if not the first, of the free trad- ers to enter the old French country was Alexan- der Henry, the elder. In 1761 Henry went from Montreal to Fort Michilimackinac. This fort was a strategic point, as it commanded the route into Lake Superior, and was the chief depot for the furs from the territory comprising Wisconsin and Michi- gan.
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