In 1792, Jean Pierre Petit Le Rouge, a squirrel eager for adventure, stows away in the canoe of a group of voyageurs, unaware of what they are traveling so far to trade. Includes pronunciation guide, historical notes, and a recipe.

Follows the yearly cycle of the voyageur Edouard as he travels to Grand Portage, trading furs for goods that he uses to purchase more furs during the winter months from the native villages.

Long before there was a mountain man called Preacher, a young adventurer set off with a team of fur traders from St. Louis for the time of his life. On a wild frontier, he sought a fortune. Instead, he found blood, betrayal, and the beginning of a legend. Armed only with a knife, surrounded by a fierce Blackfoot war party, the young man was forced to kill a warrior chief in an act of audacious courage. But when a grizzly bear attack left him half-dead,...

It's fur trapping season and Preacher is about to discover the Rocky Mountain trail holds more than wild game -- it's also infested with murderers and trail trash quick to deceive, steal, and hunt Preacher down. Among them are Jebediah Druke, his ruthless band of killers, and most terrifying of all, the barbaric renegade Crow warrior known as Blood Eye. There's a showdown coming and only one man will ultimately rise up out of the carnage . . .

"As a cold rain falls on a morning in 1812, a ragged man slogs through the St. Louis mud to locate the famed Missouri River trader called Manuel Lisa and plead for a job. Lisa doesn't know when he hires the man called John Tylor that Tylor is a hated man. From his ex-wife's bedroom to Andrew Jackson's field tent and General William Clark's offices, an intricate web has been laid for him. Tylor, however, guards his secret well. But has he made his...