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Excerpt from Pathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La Verendrye and His Sons In this little walled town Pierre Gaultiet de La, Verendrye was born, and spent his boyhood. He was one of ten children, se that he must have had no lack Of companio We have no exact description of the home the governor of Three Rivers, but it was p bably much like that Of other seigneurs landed gentry of New France - a low, rambli wooden building, with walls solid enough resist a siege, perhaps a wing or two. 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.