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• Fur trade
• Northwest, Pacific

• Selected Journals, by John Work (HTML at xmission.com)
• The Fur Hunters of the Far West: A Narrative of Adventures in the Oregon and Rocky Mountains (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855), by Alexander Ross
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, by Hudson's Bay Company (Gutenberg text)

• The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1914), by Agnes C. Laut
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Peter Pond, Fur Trader and Adventurer (1930), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Voyageur (reprint edition; St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1955), by Grace Lee Nute, illust. by Carl W. Bertsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America (London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1744), by Arthur Dobbs, contrib. by Christopher Middleton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Journal of the Yukon, 1847-48 (Publications of the Canadian Archives #4; Ottawa: Government printing bureau, 1910), by Alexander Hunter Murray, ed. by Lawrence J. Burpee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages From Montreal on the River St. Laurence, Through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans, in the Years 1789 and 1793 : With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Fur Trade of That Country (London, 1801), by Alexander Mackenzie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader: Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians (London: Printed for the author, 1791), by J. Long
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• John Long's Voyages and Travels in the Years 1768-1788 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1922), by J. Long, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gentlemen of the North (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by Ralph P. Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Young Voyageurs, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Voyageur (reprint edition; St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1955), by Grace Lee Nute, illust. by Carl W. Bertsch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heralds of Empire: Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1902), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lords of the North (Toronto: W. Briggs, ca. 1900), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Heralds of Empire: Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1902), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lords of the North (Toronto: W. Briggs, ca. 1900), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Free Trapper's Pass: or, The Gold-Seeker's Daughter (Jackson's Novels #2), by William R. Eyster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Away in the Wilderness, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• St. Louis as a Fortified Town: A Narrative and Critical Essay of the Period of Struggle for the Fur Trade of the Mississippi Valley and its Influence Upon St. Louis (St. Louis: Press of R. F. Miller, 1941), by James B. Musick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri, 1812-1813, by John C. Luttig (HTML at xmission.com)

• Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839: Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences among the Mandans, Gros Ventres and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837 (Pierre, SD: Pub. under the auspices of L. K. Fox, Dept. of History, State of South Dakota, 1932), by Francis A. Chardon, ed. by Annie Heloise Abel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839: Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences among the Mandans, Gros Ventres and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837 (Pierre, SD: Pub. under the auspices of L. K. Fox, Dept. of History, State of South Dakota, 1932), by Francis A. Chardon, ed. by Annie Heloise Abel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Caesars of the Wilderness: Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1943), by Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plan for Promoting the Fur Trade, and Securing It to This Country, By Uniting the Operations of the East-India and Hudson's-Bay Companys (1789), by Alexander Dalrymple (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin: A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1891), by Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814, Or, The First American Settlement on the Pacific (New York: Redfield, 1854), by Gabriel Franchère, trans. by J. V. Huntington
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com
• Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v8; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)

• Five Fur Traders of the Northwest: Being the Narrative of Peter Pond and the Diaries of John Macdonell. Archibald N. McLeod, Hugh Faries, and Thomas Connor (Minneapolis: Pub. for the Minnesota Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The University of Minnesota Press, 1933), ed. by Charles M. Gates, contrib. by Peter Pond, John Macdonell, Archibald Norman McLeod, Hugh Faries, Thomas Connor, and Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Unfinished Autobiography of Henry Hastings Sibley, by Henry Hastings Sibley (page images at loc.gov)

• Journal of a Trapper, by Osborne Russell (HTML at xmission.com)

• Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado, 1830-1835, by Warren Angus Ferris (HTML and PDF at xmission.com)

• A Narrative of Colonel Robert Campbell's Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade from 1825 to 1835, by Robert Campbell (HTML at xmission.com)

• Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831-1836, by Zenas Leonard (HTML at xmission.com)

• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)

• Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado, 1830-1835, by Warren Angus Ferris (HTML and PDF at xmission.com)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)

• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)

• The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (New York: R. Worthington, 1873), by Jules Verne, trans. by N. D'Anvers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fur Country; or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (New York: W. L. Allison, ca. 1873), by Jules Verne, trans. by N. D'Anvers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1874), by Jules Verne, trans. by N. D'Anvers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude, by Jules Verne, trans. by N. D'Anvers (Gutenberg HTML)
• Snowflakes and Sunbeams, Or, The Young Fur Traders: A Tale of the Far North (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1856), by R. M. Ballantyne (multiple formats at Google)
• The Young Fur-Traders, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• A Voyage Round the World, by Gustavus Hines (page images at MOA)

• Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)

• Notices and Voyages of the Famed Quebec Mission to the Pacific Northwest (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, c1956), ed. by Eric Landerholm, contrib. by Francis Norbert Blanchet, Modeste Demers, J.-B. Z. Bolduc, and Antoine Langlois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures on the Columbia River: Including the Narrative of a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains Among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown: Together With a Journey Across the American Continent (New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832), by Ross Cox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life at Puget Sound, With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California (1884), by Caroline C. Leighton (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
• Selected Journals, by John Work (HTML at xmission.com)
• Snake Country Journals, by Peter Skene Ogden (HTML at xmission.com)
• The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests, and Isthmiana, by Theodore Winthrop (page images at Mystic Seaport)
• Wonderland: or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska (Chicago: Rand McNally, c1888), by John Hyde (page images at LOC)
• Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America, 1823-1827, Together With a Particular Description of Thirty-Three Species of American Oaks and Eighteen Species of Pinus; With Appendices Containing a List of the Plants Introduced by Douglas and an Account of His Death in 1834 (London: W. Wesley and Son, 1914), by David Douglas, ed. by W. Wilks and H. R. Hutchinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

More items available under broader and related terms at left.