Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier

by Theodore Catton

Book Overview

A fateful encounter between three backwoodsmen on the British-American-Indian frontier leads to the pursuit of wealth--and tragedy.

In September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the proprietor of Rainy Lake House, was in charge of the borderlands west of Lake Superior, where he was tasked with opposing the petty traders who operated out of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421422921
• ISBN13: 9781421422923
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"