The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1882. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Gasche, Charles. Fifth edition. Ink name on second blank, rear hinge starting. 1882 Hard Cover. x, 348 pp. Arctic Bibliography 14687: "Journalist's account of life in northwestern Canada; with description of fur trading posts and dog sledging." From the preface: "...the aim of the author has been to present some of the more picturesque phases of life in the Hudson's Bay Territory, without wearying the reader with the personal business of the traveler. To this end he has shaped his material in the form of sketches, connected only by their order, which represents the seasons of the year in which the features treated periodically recur. Wherever the personal knowledge of the author has been at fault, the following works of other travelers have formed the bases of his descriptions: Hargrave's Red River, Butler's Great Lone Land and Wild North Land, Ballantyne's Hudson Bay, Southesk's Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains, and Milton and Cheadle's Northwest Passage by Land.