The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company, Including That of the French Traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor Fur Companies
by Bryce, George
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- Hardcover
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 1910, 3rd printing. (Hardcover) 503pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth with red, black and blue cover illustration. Frontispiece, illustrations, tables, maps, appendices, index. The covers are edgeworn and fraying in places, there are some small closed tears to the cloth near the spine, a place name in ink on the front free endpaper and some wear to the title page and frontispiece. "The Hudson's Bay Company! What a record this name represents of British pluck and daring, of patient industry and hardy endurance, of wild adventure among savage Indian tribes, and of exposure to danger by mountain, precipice, and seething torrent and wintry plain!" - from the Preface. Book about Astor Fur Company. Locale: Prairie Provinces. (Western Canada, Fur Trade--Canada, History--Canada, Hudson's Bay Company, Indians of North America, Settlement--Canada, Western Canada).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153602
- Title
- The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company, Including That of the French Traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor Fur Companies
- Author
- Bryce, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Western Canada, Fur Trade--Canada, History--Canada, Hudson's Bay Company, Indians of North America, Settlement--Canada, Western Canada
- Bookseller catalogs
- CANADIAN HISTORY;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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