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Excerpt from The Boy's Book of Pioneers
The great west and north-west of north america has always had a fascination for people; it would seem to be the happy hunting ground of our dreams - the place where a man may live in touch with wild nature, and feel the lash of the wind, the keen smack of the icy air - where real, hard, virile life is to be found and lived. Who of us has not revelled in the stories of the old-time pioneers of the west? Well, here is the story of one of those men - the first white man to venture across into the great unknown.
The early history of pierre radisson, the french-canadian who opened up the west, may be summed up as follows: when but just oyer sixteen years of age, he left the fort at three rivers, on the north bank of the st. Lawrence, on a hunting jaunt with a couple of young friends, and was captured by iroquois and carried inland to the mohawk country. He was adopted into the tribe of mohawks, and became a good hunter whilst dwelling amongst them.
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