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The Company of Adventurers: A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company During 1867-1874 Paperback - 1993

by Introduction by David Reed Miller; Isaac Cowie

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The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed from the Shetland Islands to Rupert's Land, finally reaching York Factory, where he awaited his assignment. Company of Adventurers describes the early, lusty history of the HBC and the years of Cowie's service, when manufactured goods were driving out the demand for furs and buffalo hides. It contains rare information about the Assiniboin and Plains Crees Indians during the period before their confinement to reservations.

Alive to the historical and ethnographic value of his writing, Cowie tells about his tenure as a clerk (later manager) at Fort Qu'Appelle in southern Saskatchewan, the colorful personalities who served with him, the wide-ranging fur brigades, remote outposts, and the Company's relations with Indian tribes. He was the first white man known to have set foot within the Swift Current District when in 1868 he hunted buffalo there. His dealings with the Mtis during the Red River Rebellion placed him where history was being made.

In an introduction to this Bison Book edition, David Reed Miller discusses how Cowie fitted into a great commercial enterprise and how he became a victim of unpleasant circumstances that forced his retirement in 1891.

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Company of Adventurers describes the early, lusty history of the HBC and the years of Cowie's service, when manufactured goods were driving out the demand for furs and buffalo hides. It contains rare information about the Assiniboin and Plains Crees Indians during the period before their confinement to reservations.

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  • Title The Company of Adventurers: A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company During 1867-1874
  • Author Introduction by David Reed Miller; Isaac Cowie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint Edition
  • Pages 555
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bison Books, Lincoln
  • Publication date 1993-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780803263505 / 0803263503
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.6 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 4.06 cm)
  • Reading level 1540
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Hudson's Bay Company, Northwest, Canadian - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92037703
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.192

About the author

David Reed Miller is a professor in the Department of Indian Studies at Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, University of Regina.

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