Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains

CHAPTER I.

Objects of American Enterprise.--Gold Hunting and Fur Trading.--Their Effect on Colonization.--Early French Canadian Settlers.--Ottawa and Huron Hunters.--An Indian Trading Camp. Coureurs Des Bois, or Rangers of the Woods.--Their Roaming Life.--Their Revels and Excesses.--Licensed Traders. Missionaries.--Trading Posts.--Primitive French Canadian Merchant.--His Establishme...