[Graphs-users] Wingen

[Vanwyhe K. <de...@pr...>]

Land watered by the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The French
Canadian was a restless, roaming adventurer and he found his vocation in
the fur-trade. This fur-trade engendered a strange class of
men--bush-rangers they were called--whose work was to paddle the canoe
along the lakes and streams and exchange their cheap rum for the
valuable furs of the Indians. To these men the Indians of the west owe
their degradation. These bush-rangers or coureurs-des-bois, perverted
the Indians and sank into barbarism with them. The few travellers there
in those days were often surprised to find in the wigwams of the Indians
men who acknowledged the blood of Fran