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Article: George Nelson. My First Years in the Fur Trade: the Journals of 1802-1804.(Book Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- March 22, 2003
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Laura Peers and Theresa Schenck, eds. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002. Pp. 234. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $29.95.
My First Years in the Fur Trade is the first in what editors Laura Peers and Theresa Schenck promise will be a series of volumes that will make George Nelson's detailed, personal recollections of his two-decades-long career in the fur trade more accessible. In 1802, at the age of fifteen, Nelson left his home near Montreal and joined the XY Company as an apprentice clerk. In this opening volume, Peers and Schenck reprint Nelson's 1802-1803 and 1803-1804 journals, along with skillfully integrated portions of an ...