Sandy MacDonald's Man: A Tale of the Mackinaw Fur Trade

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Michigan School Service, Inc [Published Date: 1929]. Hardcover, 207 pp. No other printings listed. In acceptable condition/ NO dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold illustration and lettering on front cover. Nicking and fraying to cloth at corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Black ink stains on front and rear covers as well and moderate overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Child's scribbling and doodling in pencil on a few pages and one page has a 2" diagonal tear along the top edge (does not affect the text block itself). Otherwise pages are lightly aged. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Some black and white illustrations. Overall a solid reading copy. A story of the fur trade which was a vital industry in the Great Lakes region long before Michigan became a state. From the early days of French-Canadian "voyageurs" who travelled the waterways in birch-bark canoes, trappers and traders followed their business from the Straits of Mackinac to the Straits of Detroit and beyond. [From Michigan History Magazine, Summer Number, 1820.] This story of the exploits of Sandy MacDonal's man, woven through and through with the romance of the Mackinaw country, with all the elements of adventure, mystery, and heroism of pioneer days, will be eagerly read by "youngsters" old and young . . .The story opens just as James, a nephew of the fur trader Sandy MacDonald, accepts from his uncle a commission to oat. ft a brigade and "carry on" as a free trader among the Indians of the Great Northwest We follow him Into the wilderness, perils and adventures, sharing with him the hardships of the long portage carries and the black files and mosquitoes, help him gather the wild rice and build the log shanty, and listen around the evening camp fire to the legends and traditions told by friendly natives of the forest. About us lurk other Indians with Intentions not so friendly, allies of the great fur trade monopolies whose us-written law is "Death to the free trader." Here is a setting for "thrills and heart throbs," and yet true to History. Prof. Ford has a singular gift for making the past live without distorting its reality. His style, simple and forceful, wins by not "putting on airs." It would be hard to find a book better adapted for collateral reading in the grades along with general American history in this early period of westward exploration and trade. N° de ref. del artículo 20231019013

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