The Journal of La Compagnie

La Compagnie publishes an annual journal including items about fur trade history, recipes, clothing, HSP activities, and humor.

Retail prices

$4 each, with a $2 discount for a complete set. (HSP members: $3, with a $1 discount for a complete set).

Members receive the annual journal of La Compagnie for free.

Wholesale prices

A flyer and sample issue are available to gift shops and museum stores interested in purchasing multiple issues.
<19 issues $3.00 each
20-49 issues $2.50 each
50+ issues $2.00 each

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Journal Index

Vol 1 No 1 (1982): Snowshoes; Oliver Faribault Cabin; Period Bedrolls

Vol 1 No 2 (1983): Spring Maintenance for Snowshoes; Value of Indian Trade Goods; Art of Fire Starting; Canoe Paddles; Maple Sugar; Notes on Feminine Costume

Vol 1 No 3 (1984): Northwest Trade Gun; Fur Trade Chronology, Mississippi River Canoe Voyage; George Caleb Bingham; Fire Starting; Voyageur Recruitment; Comparative Fur Values

Vol 1 No 4 (1985): Lake Superior Canoe Trip; Fur Trade Period Dress; Hivernants Paper Dolls; Axes: Universal Tool of the Fur Trade; Glossary of Fabric Terms

Vol 2 No 1 (1987): Archaeologists in Search of French Connections; A Great Lake Adventure; Manomen; Origins of the Bateau; Learning to Navigate; Dog Power in the Fur Trade

Vol 2 No 2 (1988): Voyageurs Role as Soldiers; Minnesota River Voyage; Forts Folle Avoine; Women in the Fur Trade

Vol 2 No 3 (1989): Popular Games of Chance; Games Voyageurs Play; Making an Authentic Voyageur's Shirt; John Duncan's Travels: Batteau Travel on the St. Lawrence in 1818

Vol 2 No 4 (1990): Prairie du Chien; Interpreting the Role of Sutlers and Traders; Knot Tying; Making a Crooked Knife; Use of Furs; Pemmican Making

Vol 3 No 1 (1993): In the Voyageur's Pack; Making a Pot of "Ahrubuhboo"; Canoe Trip Journal: Moose Lake to Crane Lake; Checkers as the Voyageurs Played It

Vol 5 No 1 (1995): Lawrence Taliaferro; Dakota-Francais-English phrase translations; Kenneth McKenzie; The Manufacture of Pins; Scotsmen in the Fur Trade; Henry Power Rice

Vol 5 No 2 (1997): Packing a Cassette; The Business of the Fur Trade; American Fur Company Structures at St. Peter; Jean Baptiste Faribault; Selected Trade Contracts from H.H. Sibley Papers; Sewing a Pocket and Housewife

Vol 5 No 3 (2000): How to Plank a Fresh Fish; An Analysis of the Purchases of Oliver Faribault; Ox Carts in the Fur Trade; Oliver Faribault and Early Settlement at Faribault Springs; Camp Coldwater: Fur Trade Settlement in the Fort Snelling Area

Volume 5 No 4 (June 2003):

"Two Reminiscences of the Oliver Faribault Cabin, Shakopee, Minnesota : Palagie Florence Leach and Sara Faribault." The first was written by Marion B. Winter in 1938 and the second was written by the Minnesota D.A.R. in 1914. A photograph of the cabin from a 1923 news article is also included.

"A Short History of the Dakota Indians" by John LaBatte.

"Caching the Pemmican in Winter" excerpt from Henry Youle Hine.

"Recollections and Ruminations: La Compagnie's Rainy River Trip August 2002" by Linda Bryan.

Song lyrics to "Viva La Compagnie!" originally published 1843.

"Protestant Fervor at Mackinac 1823-1837: Missions, Revivals, and Metis Children" by Linda Bryan.

"Metis Children at Mackinaw Mission Boarding School" list transcribed from Keith R. Widder's _Battle for the Soul_.

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