Excerpt from Wisconsin in Three Centuries, 1634-1905, Vol. 2: Narrative of Three Centuries in the Making of an American Commonwealth, Illustrated With Numerous Engravings of Historic Scenes and Landmarks Portraits and Facsimiles of Rare Prints, Documents and Old Maps Trade - Merging of Hudson Bay and North West Companies - Fort William succeeds to glory of Grand Portage - Formation of the Mackinaw Company American Traders in competition with the British John Jacob Astor an important factor - Establish ment of Government factories - American Fur Com pany chartered - Mackinaw Company absorbed by North West Company - Organization of South West Company - Mackinac the Center of Astor's Fur Trade - Laws regulating the hiring of Employees - Diet, Wages and Outfit of the French Canadian Traders Development of the trade increases the use of Macki nac Sail - boat - The Bateau - Grignon Brothers Jacques Forber and other Fur Traders - Locations of Trading Posts. 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.