The Young Fur Traders
by R. M. Ballantyne
It talks about the adventures of a young man named Charles Kennedy. A loose autobiographical account of Ballantine's time with Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. His success led to a series of great adventure stories for teenagers with which the name of this prolific Scottish writer was popularly associated. In the heart of the great continent of North America, far from the dwellings of civilized people and about twenty miles south of Lake Winnipeg, there is a colony of Indians, Scots, and French-Canadians known as the Red River Settlement. Although the Red River is far from the civilized world and has a lot of brutality and little refined in its territory, the Red River is a highly densely populated paradise compared to the ruined, lonely establishments of Hudson's Bay Fur Company.
