Caesars of the Wilderness

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Caesars of the Wilderness
Here is the explosive saga, begun in Company of Adventurers, chronicling the exploits of the voyageurs and soldiers-of-fortune who conquered a continent and forged the heart of a nation.
They were the Caesars of the Wilderness—dispossessed Scots and Englishmen seized by the idea that the virgin vistas of the New World offered a chance to live out their boldest fantasies and get rich in the process.
Enrolled in the service of the "Company of Adventurers of England Tradeing into Hudson's Bay" they became proprietors of history's most valuable and longest-enduring monopoly. Their empire covered most of modern Canada and the northwestern United States—one-twelfth of the earth's land surface— stretching from the Beaufort Sea to San Francisco.
In this volume Newman vividly documents how the hbc's fur monopoly was threatened by independent traders out of Montreal, banded together to form the North West Company. Using imported cannons and European mercenaries... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Caesars of the Wilderness
Here is the explosive saga, begun in Company of Adventurers, chronicling the exploits of the voyageurs and soldiers-of-fortune who conquered a continent and forged the heart of a nation.
They were the Caesars of the Wilderness—dispossessed Scots and Englishmen seized by the idea that the virgin vistas of the New World offered a chance to live out their boldest fantasies and get rich in the process.
Enrolled in the service of the "Company of Adventurers of England Tradeing into Hudson's Bay" they became proprietors of history's most valuable and longest-enduring monopoly. Their empire covered most of modern Canada and the northwestern United States—one-twelfth of the earth's land surface— stretching from the Beaufort Sea to San Francisco.
In this volume Newman vividly documents how the hbc's fur monopoly was threatened by independent traders out of Montreal, banded together to form the North West Company. Using imported cannons and European mercenaries the two sides engaged in history's most violent commercial feud. Their accounts were often settled in blood, as mayhem became the currency of the fur trade.
Eventually, the Company's huge empire came under the dictatorial rule of HBC Governor Sir George Simpson, Canada's first and only Viceroy. Simpson ran his outrageous domain out of an express canoe for 40 years until the Company became a country—Canada. Vissza