Canada, Fur trade, Exploration, Northwest, Hudson's Bay Company 

Contents:

V.1. Company of adventurers -- v. 2 Caesars of the wilderness -- v. 3 Merchant princes (1991).

pt. I. Dreams of empire -- 1. The bay men -- 2. Beyond the westering sea -- 3. A bounty of beaver -- 4. Messrs radishes & gooseberries -- pt. II. Assumption of empire -- 5. A princely undertaking -- 6. Battling for the bay -- 7. The century of the lakes -- pt. III. Anchoring of empire -- 8. Asleep by the frozen sea -- 9. The salty Orcadians -- 10. A savage commerce -- pt. IV. March of empire -- 11. Pathfinders -- 12. The Dobbs intervention -- 13. Samuel Hearne's Odyssey -- 14. The blood feud begins -- 15. March of empire -- pt. V. Empire at risk -- 16. The Nor'Westers -- 17. The magnificent river rats -- 18. Big Mack -- 19. Storming of the west -- 20. Howling with the wolves -- 21. A fearful innocence -- 22. Showdown -- pt. VI. Empire triumphant -- 23. A marriage of great convenience -- 24. The birchbark Napoleon -- 25. The Viceroy -- 26. Galahads of the Pacific -- 27. British Columbia's mulatto king -- VII. End of empire -- 28. Unravelling the fur monopoly -- 29. Death of a Titan -- 30. Surrender -- pt. VIII. Labrador Smith -- 31. The man who became a country -- 32. Growing up cold -- 33. Bringing Louis Riel to heel -- 34. The great fire canoes -- 35. Progression and betrayal -- 36. Steal of empire -37. Canada in a shallow-trail coat -- 38. The reckoning -- pt. IX. Quest for a new empire -- 39. On the trail of the arctic fox -- 40. Killing the competition -- 42. The Nascopie chronicles -- pt. X. Merchant princes -- 43. The lords and the good old boys -- 44. Trans-Atlantic blood feud -- 45. Canadian at last -- 46. McGiverin's run -- pt. XI. Farewell to glory -- 47. Young Ken -- 48. Disaster and deliverance -- 49. Last lord of the bay.