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Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North Ameria
Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North Ameria Author:Zebulon Montgomery Pike Subtitle: Comprising a Voyage From St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of That River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-Eastern Provinces of New Spain : Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1... more »811 Original Publisher: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: RECAPITULATION. OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRADE, VIEWS, AND POLICY OF THE NORTH WEST COM PANY, AND THE NATIONAL OBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THEIR COMMERCE, AS IT INTERESTS THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE fur. trade in Canada, has always ben considered as an object of the first importance to that colony, and has been cherished by the respective governors of that province, by every regulation in their power, under both the French and English administrations. The great and almost unlimited influence, the traders of that country had acquired over the savages, was severly felt, and will long be remembered by the citizens on our frontiers. Every attention was paid by the cabinet of St. James in our treaty with Great Britain to secure to their Canadian subjects the privilege of the Indian trade within our territories, and with what judgment they have improved the advantages they obtained, time will soon unfold. In the year 1766, the trade was first extended from Michillimac- kinac to the north west, by a few desperate adventurers, whose mode of life on the voyage, and short residence in civil society, obtained for them the appellation of Coureurs des Bois. From this trifling beginning arose the present North West Company, who, notwithstanding the repeated attacks...« less