. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. . .270 Beaver Coin of the Hudsons Bav Company . .271 Alexander Mackenzie . . . , .276 Eskimo trading his Pipe, carved from Walrus Tusk, for the Value of Three Beaver Skins . . ,278 Ouill and Beadwork on Buckskin . . .281 Fort William, Headquarters Northwest Company, Lake Superior 283Running a Rapid on Mackenzie River . Facing 286 Slave Lake Indians ........ 290 Good Hope, Mackenzie River, Hudsons Bay Company Fort . 301 ILLUSTRATIONS XXV The Mouth of the Mackenzie by the Light o
. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. . .270 Beaver Coin of the Hudsons Bav Company . .271 Alexander Mackenzie . . . , .276 Eskimo trading his Pipe, carved from Walrus Tusk, for the Value of Three Beaver Skins . . ,278 Ouill and Beadwork on Buckskin . . .281 Fort William, Headquarters Northwest Company, Lake Superior 283Running a Rapid on Mackenzie River . Facing 286 Slave Lake Indians ........ 290 Good Hope, Mackenzie River, Hudsons Bay Company Fort . 301 ILLUSTRATIONS XXV The Mouth of the Mackenzie by the Light of the Midnight Sun Captain Meriwether Lewis Captain WiHiam Clark Tracking up Stream Typical Mountain Trapper The Discovery of the Great Falls Fighting a Grizzly . Packer carrving Goods across Portage Spying on Encmvs Fort . Indian Camp at Foothills of Rockies On Guard .... Indians of the Up-country or Pays den Haut 306 309 3o 314 Facing 37 Fdciiig 3«9 320 322 32+ Facing 328 330 PART IPIERRK ESPRIT RADISSON ADVENTURES OF THE FIRST WHITE MAN TOEXPLORE THE WEST, THE NORTHWEST, ANDTHE NORTH. Pathfinders of the West CHAPTER I 1651-1653 RADISSONS FIRST VOYAGE The Boy Radisson is captured by the Iroquois and carried to theMohawk Valley — In League with Another Captive, he slays theirGuards and escapes — He is overtaken in Sight of Home —•Tortured and adopted in the Tribe, he visits Orange, where theDutch offer to ransom him — His Escape Early one morning in the spring of 1652 threevoiing men left the Httle stockaded fort of ThreeRivers, on the north bank of the St. Lawrence, for adays hunting in the marshes of Lake St. Peter. Onone side were the forested hills, purple with the mistsof rising vapor and still streaked with white patches otsnow where the dense woods shut out the the other lav the silver expanse ot the St. Law-rence, more like a lake than a river, with mile on milesouthwestward of rush-grown marshes, where ploverand curlew and duck and wild gees
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