Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XIX: Mackinac Register of Baptisms and Interments, 1695-1821; A Wisconsin Fur-Trader's Journal, 1804-04; The

This essential volume of the highly esteemed Wisconsin Historical Collections is divided into four separate parts relating to the early fur trade in the Great Lakes region. The fur-trader's journal was written by Francois Victor Malhoit. Malhoit was a clerk assigned to a post at Lac Du Flambeau, among the wild Chippewa. In clear, vigorous language, he narrates the events of his daily like; drunken bouts among the savages, transportation of goods over a difficult portage, constant isolation ...