The Voyageur in the Illinois Country: The Fur Trade's Professional Boatmen in Mid America

by Margaret Kimball Brown

The French voyageur cuts a dashing figure in our imaginations, so much so we often overlook the reality of his profession: it was a job. Margaret Brown looks at the business end of being a waterman in the remote French settlements of the Illinois Country in the mid-18th century; she presents her picture of the voyageurs' world from the perspective offered by the contracts, debts, and inventories they left behind. But there is still room for danger...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615628524
• ISBN13: 9780615628523
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Center for French Colonial Studies, Inc.
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 10.0"