The author desires to express thanks to pioneers and fur traders of the West for information, details and anecdotes bearing on the old life, which are herein embodied; and would also acknowledge the assistance of the history of the North-West Company and manuscripts of the Bourgeois, compiled by Senator L.
R. Masson; and the value of such early works as those of Dr. George Bryce, Gunn, Hargraves, Ross and others.