John Rowand, Fur Trader: A Story of the Old Northwest

205 pp. "Have you ever wondered what it was like to live in the Canadian wilds a hundred and fifty years ago? To travel thousands of miles by canoe? To live far from civilization behind a wooden stockade that might be attacked by Indians at any moment? There have always been boys who have craved adventure, but few have found so much as John Rowand, a doctor's son who set out for the northwest at fourteen and stayed to become one of the founders of a great modern city. John Rowand's story is full of the action and excitement of a swashbuckling era when traders made vast fortunes, married Indian princesses, and brought up children who spoke three languages long before they had a chance to go to school. It is a tale of great daring, great courage, and great endurance."--jacket