The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts at traversing the treacherous rapids and dangerous open waters of the canoe routes from Quebect and Montreal to the regions bordering the Great Lakes an on to the Mackenzie and Columbia Rivers. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, explorers and fur traders relied on the voyagerus to open up the vast reaches of North America to settlement and trade. 
 
A noted scholar of the fur trade, Grace Lee Nute was a curator at the Minnesota Historical Society, a professor of history at Hamline University, and the author of The Voyageur's Highway. 
 
Paperback
289 Pages
Minnesota Historical Society Press, Reprint 1955.