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The Grand Portage: A Novel
The Grand Portage: A Novel
The Grand Portage: A Novel
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The Grand Portage—The Great Novel of Traders and Trappers in the Northwest 1800-1819.

“VIOLENT, BRUTAL AND RAW AS TRADING RUM…A FIRST-RATE TALE OF THE FIGHT FOR FURS THAT SENT RUGGED, UNSCRUPULOUS MEN FROM THEIR LAKE SUPERIOR HEADQUARTERS NORTH TO HUDSON'S BAY, THE ARCTIC CIRCLE AND THE PACIFIC COAST.”—Salt Lake Tribune

“PRESENTS A SWEEPING PANORAMA OF THE NORTHWEST FUR TRADE…THE COLD RIVERS, THE TRAMPLED PORTAGES, THE JOSTLING LIFE OF THE GREAT DEPOTS AND THE LONELY WASTES OF WOODS AND PRAIRIE.”—Chicago Tribune
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Release dateNov 19, 2020
ISBN9781839746376
The Grand Portage: A Novel
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Walter O'Meara

Walter O'Meara was a New York advertising executive who retired in 1952 to write historical nonfiction and novels. By the time of his death in 1989, he had published sixteen books, including The Grand Portage, which received an award from the American Association for State and Local History.

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