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who know, I surely do not need to state that there is no
picture of Radisson extant, and that some of the studies of his life are
just as genuine (?) as alleged old prints of his likeness.

CONTENTS
PART ONE
PIERRE ESPRIT RADISSON
ADVENTURES OF THE FIRST WHITE MAN TO EXPLORE THE
WEST, THE NORTHWEST, AND THE NORTH
CHAPTER I

RADISSON'S FIRST VOYAGE
The Boy Radisson is captured by the Iroquois and carried to the
Mohawk Valley--In League with Another Captive, he slays their
Guards and escapes--He is overtaken in Sight of Home--Tortured and
adopted in the Tribe, he visits Orange, where the Dutch offer to ransom
him--His Escape
CHAPTER II
RADISSON'S SECOND VOYAGE
Radisson returns to Quebec, where he joins the Jesuits to go to the
Iroquois Mission--He witnesses the Massacre of the Hurons among the
Thousand Islands--Besieged by the Iroquois, they pass the Winter as
Prisoners of War--Conspiracy to massacre the French foiled by
Radisson
CHAPTER III
RADISSON'S THIRD VOYAGE
The Discovery of the Great Northwest--Radisson and his
Brother-in-law, Groseillers, visit what are now Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Dakota, and the Canadian Northwest--Radisson's Prophecy on first
beholding the West--Twelve Years before Marquette and Jolliet,
Radisson sees the Mississippi--The Terrible Remains of Dollard's Fight
seen on the Way down the Ottawa--Why Radisson's Explorations have
been ignored
CHAPTER IV
RADISSON'S FOURTH VOYAGE
The Success of the Explorers arouses Envy--It becomes known that
they have heard of the Famous Sea of the North--When they ask
Permission to resume their Explorations, the French Governor refuses
except on Condition of receiving Half the Profits--In Defiance, the

Explorers steal off at Midnight--They return with a Fortune and are
driven from New France
CHAPTER V
RADISSON RENOUNCES ALLEGIANCE TO TWO CROWNS
Rival Traders thwart the Plans of the Discoverers--Entangled in
Lawsuits, the Two French Explorers go to England--The Organization
of the Hudson's Bay Fur Company--Radisson the Storm-centre of
International Intrigue--Boston Merchants in the Struggle to capture the
Fur Trade
CHAPTER VI
RADISSON GIVES UP A CAREER IN THE NAVY FOR THE FUR
TRADE
Though opposed by the Monopolists of Quebec, he secures Ships for a
Voyage to Hudson Bay--Here he encounters a Pirate Ship from Boston
and an English Ship of the Hudson's Bay Company--How he plays his
Cards to win against Both Rivals
CHAPTER VII
THE LAST VOYAGE OF RADISSON TO HUDSON BAY
France refuses to restore the Confiscated Furs and Radisson tries to
redeem his Fortune--Reëngaged by England, he captures back Fort
Nelson, but comes to Want in his Old Age--His Character

PART TWO
THE SEARCH FOR THE WESTERN SEA, BEING AN ACCOUNT
OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, THE
MISSOURI UPLANDS, AND THE VALLEY OF THE

SASKATCHEWAN
CHAPTER VIII
THE SEARCH FOR THE WESTERN SEA
M. de la Vérendrye continues the Exploration of the Great Northwest
by establishing a Chain of Fur Posts across the Continent--Privations of
the Explorers and the Massacre of Twenty Followers--His Sons visit
the Mandans and discover the Rockies--The Valley of the
Saskatchewan is next explored, but Jealousy thwarts the Explorer, and
he dies in Poverty

PART THREE
SEARCH FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE LEADS SAMUEL
HEARNE TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE AND ATHABASCA REGION
CHAPTER IX
SAMUEL HEARNE
The Adventures of Hearne in his Search for the Coppermine River and
Northwest Passage--Hilarious Life of Wassail led by Governor
Norton--The Massacre of the Eskimo by Hearne's Indians North of the
Arctic Circle--Discovery of the Athabasca Country--Hearne becomes
Resident Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, but is captured by
the French--Death of Norton and Suicide of Matonabbee

PART FOUR
FIRST ACROSS THE ROCKIES--HOW MACKENZIE CROSSED
THE NORTHERN ROCKIES AND LEWIS AND CLARK WERE
FIRST TO CROSS FROM MISSOURI TO COLUMBIA

CHAPTER X
FIRST ACROSS THE ROCKIES
How Mackenzie found the Great River named after him and then
pushed across the Mountains to the Pacific, forever settling the
Question of a Northwest Passage
CHAPTER XI
LEWIS AND CLARK
The First White Men to ascend the Missouri to its Sources and descend
the Columbia to the Pacific--Exciting Adventures on the Cañons of the
Missouri, the Discovery of the Great Falls and the Yellowstone--Lewis'
Escape from Hostiles
APPENDIX
INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS
Stealing from the Fort by Night . . . . . . Frontispiece
Map of the Great Fur Country
Three Rivers in 1757
Map of the Iroquois Country in the Days of Radisson
Albany from an Old Print
The Battery, New York, in Radisson's Time
Fort Amsterdam, from an ancient engraving executed in Holland

One of the Earliest Maps of the Great Lakes
Paddling past Hostiles
Jogues, the Jesuit Missionary, who was tortured by the Mohawks
Château de Ramezay, Montreal
A Cree Brave, with the Wampum String
An Old-time Buffalo Hunt on the Plains among the Sioux
Father Marquette, from an old painting discovered in Montreal
Voyageurs running the Rapids of the Ottawa River