The Desperate Journey
Kathleen Fidler
Paperback
(Lutterworth Press, Aug. 16, 1964)
Kathleen Fidler has based this story on actual records of the Red River colony in what is now Manitoba. All the adventures--with the Indians, with enemies of the Hudson Bay Company, and the hazardous journeys by snowshoe and canoe--really happened to settles in Canada between 1811 and 1815