Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Golden Pelt: A Tale of Black Foxes Whose Silver Tips Are Worth Their Weight in Gold
Ever since the Hudson's Bay Company began operations in Canada the extreme rarity and unusual high quality of the black or silver fox pelt has been recognized. Every season for the past 200 years when trapp rs go out the factors offer highest prices for a good fox pelt and fabulous sums for a perfect silver skin. Those wastes to the north-west of us could tell some wonderful tales of cupidity, violence and bloodshed on the part of less successful trappers. For it is only a few - very few - who succeed in trapping even a single specimen of this precious member of the vulpine tribe. For a long. Long time the standard price offered by the Hudson's Bay Company for a silver fox pelt has hovered around sui) and the efforts put forward by these poor French Canadians. Half-breeds and Indians to secure this almost unheard-of sum of money for a season's work. Can be better imagined than described. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
