Banished Into The Interior: The Making of Peter Dorn - Fur Trader
by S. T. Keran
Category: Fiction

Pietor William Van Doorn IV, later to become known in the New World as Peter Dorn, leaves Amsterdam at age 17. Well schooled by his aged father in matters of the Fur Trade, Pieter is woefully ignorant of what awaits him in Albany, under control of the hated English. Sailing on board De Engelenburg in 1690, is British Sir James Blackman with whom, a recalcitant Pieter is quartered. However, Sir James comes to see in this "scruffy young son of a burgher" a risk-taking spirit useful to himself in The Trade. On a trumped-up charge, Sir James has Pieter banished from the colony, and sent off into the interior of North America, acommpanied by a loyal Mohawk, and hired Ojibwa canoeman, among whom, Pieter's future will depend.