Soft Gold: A Tale of the Fur Trade
by Jim Reiley
Category: Fur trade

A fifteen year old boy is taken from his Highlands home, transported to Montreal in the late 1700¿s, given some training in the business end of fur trading, and is injected into the reality of the trade in the North Country of Canada. Author Jim Reiley uses this setting to bring his readers into an intimate relationship with Duncan Ross; his adventures and misadventures, his successes and his failures. Ross meets, falls in love with and marries in ¿the fashion of the North¿ a mixed-blood native woman, and becomes the father to a bright, alert, and independent daughter who generates change in the lives of both her father and her mother.