King of the Fur Traders. The Deeds and Deviltry of Pierre Esprit Radisson.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 8½ x 5½ inches. x, 326pp. Chapter heading illustrations, map endpapers; notes, bibliography and index. Green cloth lettered and decorated in black. Bottom rear corner lightly bumped, else a fine and clean copy with pictorial dust jacket. Jacket chipped and worn at spine ends, lightly rubbed at extremities. Biography of the French fur trader who was the discoverer of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River, was the first to explore and chart what is now Wisconsin, and was one of the founders of the Hudson's Bay Company. Presents exhaustive detail to show life as it was on the early Canadian frontier. [Tassin: pp. 222, 280]. .