Early History of North Dakota

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II OCCUPIED' FOR INDIAN TRADE The Hudson's Bay Company?Rupert's Land?The North-west And x. Y. Com- Panies ALEXANDER HENRY'S RED RIVER BRIGADE THE .EMBARKATION THE INDIAN CONTINGENT THE INDIAN HUNTING GROUNDS, ABOUNDING IN BEARS, BEAVERS AND BUFFALO TERRORIZED BY THE SIOUX THE PARK RIVER POST STORY...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II OCCUPIED' FOR INDIAN TRADE The Hudson's Bay Company?Rupert's Land?The North-west And x. Y. Com- Panies ALEXANDER HENRY'S RED RIVER BRIGADE THE .EMBARKATION THE INDIAN CONTINGENT THE INDIAN HUNTING GROUNDS, ABOUNDING IN BEARS, BEAVERS AND BUFFALO TERRORIZED BY THE SIOUX THE PARK RIVER POST STORY OF THE BRITISH FLAG THE VICIOUS ELEMENT OF LIQUOR SACRIFICE AND THANKSGIVING?AN ATTEMPT AT BRIBERY HUNTERS AND THE SPOILS CONTRACTS WITH THE LORDS OF THE FORESTS EARLY TRADING POSTS PEMBINA POST ESTABLISHED. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong, Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame, Through its ocean-sundered fibres, feels the gush of joy or shame? In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. ?James Russell Lowell. The Hudson's Bay Company?Rupert's Land In 1609 Henry Hudson, a navigator of English birth, sailing under the flag of the Dutch West Indies, ascended the stream now known as Hudson River, discovered by Giovanni de Verrazano in 1524. The next year he explored Hudson Bay, and perished on the voyage. In 1667, the Duke of York and Prince Rupert formed a company in England for the exploration of Hudson Bay with a view to trade, and two vessels were dispatched for. the purpose; one of them the Nonsuch Ketch, commanded by Capt. Zachariah Gillam of Boston, reaching Hudson Bay in September of the following year. The winter was spent in that region at Fort Charles. They returned to Boston, and thence to London in 1669, and proceeded to organize the Hudson's Bay Company, which was chartered by Charles II, May 2, 1670, the king himself, his brother the Duke of York, and his nephew Prince Rupert, leading a long list of...