Charley Kennedy, son of an old fur trader at Red River, longs for adventure and is sent into the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Drawing on his own years in the north, Ballantyne fills the story with canoe journeys, buffalo hunts, winter posts, voyageurs like Jacques and the Indian friend Redfeather.
Ballantyne’s first boys’ novel, based on what he saw as a young clerk in Rupert’s Land. Download the free EPUB.