The Young Fur Traders: R.M. BallantyneThis is the life of a Canadian trapper in the early 1800s. Charlie Kennedy lives in the arctic colony known as the Red River Settlement with Indians, Scotsmen, and French Canadian settlers. His father, an old fur trader, hopes to convince his son to become a clerk by recounting the dangers of the trappers life, but the stories only inspire the boy more to explore the vast Canadian wilderness. A variety of circumstances lead to Charlie trapping in the