Exploration & Journeys
Story of the Trapper
Agnes C. Laut
2026
8h 48m$1.99
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The beaver hat made and unmade a continent. Laut tells the fur trade from inside the canoe: the French coureurs de bois, the Hudson's Bay men, the Nor'Westers, the Astorians, the mountain men and the rendezvous, and the Native nations who did most of the trapping and got the worst of every bargain. A Canadian historian who had talked to the last men still doing the work.
Inside this audiobook
20 chapters
- 1Editor's Preface8m
- 2Gamesters of the Wilderness10m
- 3Three Companies in Conflict24m
- 4The Nor' Westers' Coup11m
- 5The Ancient Hudson's Bay Company Wakens Up17m
- 6Mr. Astor's Company Encounters New Opponents22m
- 7The French Trapper28m
- 8The Buffalo-Runners31m
- 9The Mountaineers37m
- 10The Taking of the Beaver29m
- 11The Making of the Moccasins22m
- 12The Indian Trapper30m
- 13Ba' tiste, the Bear Hunter29m
- 14John Colter - Free Trapper39m
- 15The Greatest Fur Company of the World48m
- 16Koot and the Bob-cat31m
- 17Other Little Animals besides Wahboos the Rabbit35m
- 18The Rare Furs - How the Trapper Takes Them34m
- 19Under the North Star -- Where Fox and Ermine Run33m
- 20What the Trapper Stands For10m
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