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Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.3 | The History Cooperative
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Making the Voyageur World
Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade

By Carolyn Podruchny
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. x, 414. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paperbound, $29.95.)

This is the first scholarly book about the contract workers who literally propelled the fur trade into the far western and most northern reaches of Canada as the teamsters of the waterways. It surpasses Grace Lee Nute's entertaining and anecdotal 1931 classic, The Voyageur, in both depth and breadth of coverage. Podruchny's multidisciplinary study reflects the most recent themes, trends, and theories in analyzing historical evidence from the perspectives of class and character, gender and geography, economics and ethnicity. She covers all aspects of the personal and professional lives of the voyageurs employed in the Montreal-based fur trade from the time of the British conquest of Canada in 1763 to the merger of the rival North West and Hudson's Bay companies in 1821. . . .
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