Chapter I: Front Matter

Radisson, the Pathfinder, Discovers Hudson Bay
and Founds the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers 97

CHAPTER VII

The Adventures of the First Voyage—Radisson Driven
Back Organizes the Hudson’s Bay Company and Writes
his Journals of Four Voyages—The Charter and the
First Shareholders—Adventures of Radisson on the
Bay—The Coming of the French and the Quarrel 111

CHAPTER VIII

“Gentlemen Adventurers of England”—Lords of the
Outer Marches—Two Centuries of Company
Rule—Secret Oaths—The Use of Whiskey—The
Matrimonial Offices—The Part the Company Played
in the Game of International Juggling—How Trade
and Voyages Were Conducted 132

CHAPTER IX

If Radisson Can Do Without the Adventurers, the
Adventurers Cannot Do Without Radisson—The
Eruption of the French on the Bay—The Beginning
of the Raiders 162

CHAPTER X

The Adventurers Furious at Radisson, Find it Cheaper
to Have him as a Friend than Enemy and Invite him
Back—The Real Reason Why Radisson Returned—The
Treachery of Statecraft—Young Chouart Outraged,
Nurses his Wrath and Gayly Comes on the Scene
Monsieur Péré—Scout and Spy 180

CHAPTER XI

Wherein the Reasons for Young Chouart Groseiller’s
Mysterious Message to Our Good Friend “Péré” are
Explained—The Forest Rovers of New France Raid the
Bay by Sea and Land—Two Ships Sunk—Péré, the Spy,
Seized and Sent to England 198

CHAPTER XII

Pierre le Moyne d’Iberville Sweeps the Bay 211

CHAPTER XIII

D’Iberville Sweeps the Bay (_continued_) 228

CHAPTER XIV

What Became of Radisson?—New Facts on the Last
Days of the Famous Pathfinder 256

PART III

CHAPTER XV

The First Attempts of the Adventurers to
Explore—Henry Kelsey Penetrates as far as the
Valley of the Saskatchewan—Sanford and Arrington,
Known as “Red Cap,” Found Henley House Inland from
Albany—Beset from Without, the Company is also
Beset from Within—Petitions Against the
Charter—Increase of Capital—Restoration of the
Bay from France 277

CHAPTER XVI

Old Captain Knight, Beset by Gold Fever, Hears the
Call of the North—The Straits and Bay—The First
Harvest of the Sea at Dead Man’s Island—Castaways
for Three Years—The Company, Beset by Gold Fever,
Increases its Stock—Pays Ten Per Cent. on Twice
Trebled Capital—Coming of Spies Again 298

CHAPTER XVII

The Company’s Prosperity Arouses Opposition—Arthur
Dobbs and the Northwest Passage and the Attack
on the Charter—No Northwest Passage is Found, but
the French Spur the English to Renewed Activity 320

CHAPTER XVIII

The March Across the Continent Begins—The Company
Sends a Man to the Blackfeet of the South
Saskatchewan—Anthony Hendry is the First
Englishman to Penetrate to the Saskatchewan—The
First Englishman to Winter West of Lake Winnipeg—He
Meets the Sioux and the Blackfeet and Invites
them to the Bay 334

CHAPTER XIX

Extension of Trade toward Labrador, Quebec and
Rockies—Hearne Finds the Athabasca Country and
Founds Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan—Cocking
Proceeds to the Blackfeet—Howse Finds the Pass in
Rockies 355