Title: Wintering
First published: 1999
Description: Pierre, the 14-year-old hero of "The Broken Blade", spends a winter with the North West Company in French Canada. The canoe-men build a camp beside an Ojibwa village, and Pierre learns the deep-winter survival skills and secrets of the fur traders and trappers, and friendship with an Ojibwa brave opens up a rich new world to Pierre.
Subjects: Indians of North America, Ojibwa Indians, Fur traders, Fiction, History
Places: Canada
Time periods: 1763-1867
LC classification: PZ7.D9323 Wi 1999