The West was a crisscross map of cultures, from the Hispanic and Indian natives to the Santa Fe Trail drovers, migrants in wagon trains struggling out to the Oregon Territory, and voyageurs paddling down from North Country rivers and lakes.
We know that the Siouan tribe living near the Missouri River did not use the word Missouri before they had borrowed it from the French voyageurs, because a neighboring tribe from a different language family is the source of the name.
Outfitter: Precision Rafting (for the upper); Wilderness Voyageurs (for the middle and lower sections).
The researchers measured the hormones, called glucocorticoids, in elk feces from Yellowstone and wolf feces from Yellowstone, Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota and Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior.
Next trip, Roy and I plan to hike the Grand Portage -- meaning Great Carrying Place -- along which the voyageurs brought trade goods from one direction and furs from the other.
Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly fur traders of popular myth as agents of a hard-nosed, often ruthless, imperial endeavor.
Rediscovering the commis voyageur's route from Paris to Cognac is a nice adventure in commercial history.
Visited in the 1730s by the son of La Vérendrye (the French voyageur) and named from the Cree Indian words for "muddy water," the lake is a remnant of glacial Lake Agassiz.
We had set out two days before -- Tom Thulen, a photographer; Mike Prom of Voyageur Canoe Outfitters, from whom we rented our winter camping gear; and me -- on a sunny late-January morning when the thermometer read 13 below, and winds gusted to 20 miles per hour.
The French-Canadian voyageurs would carry two 40 kg packs from the main storage depot at Grand Portage Bay along the trail to their smaller storage depot at Fort Charlotte; it took a few hours.
