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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 03, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![The Young Fur Traders](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqnn6rb2mxvbc4jjf7ykc3ga/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260909%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260909T145941Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=e4956605ceba5da701257dd95f0edf11a9a7691ea25a2c140a66e4099c47730d) ## About this work The Young Fur Traders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne — a public-domain edition published by publica.now. Sample ## Take a look inside R.M. Ballantyne "The Young Fur Traders" Preface. In writing this book my desire has been to draw an exact copy of the picture which is indelibly stamped on my own memory. I have carefully avoided exaggeration in everything of importance. All the chief and most of the minor incidents are facts. In regard to unimportant matters, I have taken the liberty of a novelist—not to colour too highly, or to invent improbabilities, but—to transpose time, place, and circumstance at pleasure; while, at the same time, I have endeavoured to convey to the reader’s mind a truthful impression of the general effect—to use a painter’s language—of the life and country of the Fur-Trader. R.M. Ballantyne. Edinburgh, 1856. Chapter One. Plunges the reader into the middle of an Arctic winter; conveys him into the heart of the wildernesses of North America; and introduces him to some of the principal personages of our tale. Snowflakes and sunbeams, heat and cold, winter and summer, alternated with their wonted regularity for fifteen years in the wild regions of the Far North. During this space of time the hero of our tale sprouted from babyhood to boyhood, passed through the usual amount of accidents, ailments, and vicissitudes incidental to those periods of life, and finally entered upon that ambiguous condition that precedes early manhood. It was a clear, cold winter’s day. The sunbeams of summer were long past, and snowflakes had fallen thickly on the banks of Red River. Charley sat on a lump of blue ice, his head drooping and his eyes bent on the snow at his feet with an expression of deep disconsolation. Kate reclined at Charley’s side, looking wistfully up in his expressive face, as if to read the thoughts that were chasing each other through his mind, like the ever-varying clouds… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fthe-young-fur-traders) The sample continues in the full work. 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