THE CONQUEST
By
H. BEDFORD-JONES
Published by
DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING COMPANY
Elgin Chicago New York Boston
Publishing House and Mailing Rooms, — Elgin, Illinois
COPYRIGHT, 1914,
THE DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING COMPANY.
CONTENTS
I. What We Found on the Moor
II. Gib o' Clarclach
III. The "Lass o' Dee" Sails
IV. The Man from the Sea
V. How the "Lass" Was Drifted
VI. Radisson the Great
VII. Grim Howls
VIII. Deserted
IX. The Great Adventure Begins
X. The Keeper and The Arrow
XI. In the Villages of the Crees
XII. The Moose of Mystery
XIII. The Raiders
XIV. The Pursuit
XV. Outgeneraled
XVI. A Voice in the Night
XVII. A Martyr of the Snows
XVIII. Hudson's End
XIX. The Mighty One
XX. How Pierre Radisson Slept
XXI. The Shadow of the Cross
XXII. The End of the Long Trail
FOREWORD
The story of Pierre Radisson, which is herein related, has passed intohistory. That he was the first white man to reach the Mississippi, afterDe Soto, is now admitted. It was he who founded the Hudson's BayCompany, and who opened up the great Northwest to the world,receiving the basest of ingratitude in return.
The materials and facts used in this narrative I owe in part to AgnesC. Laut, who has rescued him from oblivion and given him his rightfulplace in history. The manner of his death no man knows to this day,but it is hard to imagine this world-wandered dying in his bed in Londontown; one likes to think of him as finding the peace of his "heart'sdesire" in the far land which he knew and loved and served sowell.—H. Bedford-Jones.
DEDICATED
To my mother, whose picture is the
picture of Ruth MacDonald in these pages.
THE CONQUEST
By H. BEDFORD-JONES
CHAPTER I.
WHAT WE FOUND ON THE MOOR.
My father cocked up one eye at theheavens and stroked his heavybeard, and, as the storm was allbut over, he growled assent in the Gaelictongue that we of the west used amongourselves.
"Aye, come along, Davie. We'll havework to find the sheep and get themtogether after this blow. Belike they