Front matter

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 into history. That he was the first white man to reach the Mississippi, after De Soto, is now admitted. It was he who founded the Hudson's Bay Company, 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 Agnes C. Laut, who has rescued him from oblivion and given him his rightful place 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 London town; one likes to think of him as finding the peace of his "heart's desire" in the far land which he knew and loved and served so well.—H. Bedford-Jones.

DEDICATED

To my mother, whose picture is the picture of Ruth MacDonald in these pages.

THE CONQUEST

By H. BEDFORD-JONES