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Oct 22, 2017

NaNoWriMo Story Idea # 6 René Baptiste Ouellette: Coureur des bois

NaNoWriMo Story Idea # 6
 René Baptiste Ouellette:  Coureur des bois 
(runner of the woods)

Before the state-sponsored voyageur (licensed fur traders).  There were coureurs de bois. 
Independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian woodsman who traveled in New France and the North America to trade in beaver pelts with the Native Americans.  





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