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Empire of the Bay, The Company of Adventurers That Seized a Continent


by Peter C. Newman

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 646 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

A big, lively history of Hudson's Bay Company, the enormous fur trading organization that controlled and explored much of the Canadian wilderness in the 18th and 19th centuries. (CND78, $16.00)

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